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Martina Horner

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

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Martina Horner

Interview: J.P. Smith, author of The Summoning

Sep 23, 2021

THE SUMMONING, J.P. Smith’s ninth novel, revolves around a 9/11 widow whose daughter is in a coma from a fall after witnessing what appeared to be an accidental death. To make ends meet, she acts as a medium, reaching out and offering assistance to those who lost loved ones on that tragic September day. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, Smith talks about why he enjoys creating fresh characters with each new book he writes, how he came up with the plot line for his latest psychological thriller, and why he had to make a last-minute change to the ending of his debut novel.

Alan Saporta

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

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Alan Saporta

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

September 21, 2021

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of September 20th and September 27th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our "What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com, where three book groups will win up to 12 copies of THE LAST MONA LISA by Jonathan Santlofer. This Bookreporter.com Bets On selection is a suspenseful and seductive tale, perfect for fans of the Netflix documentaries "This Is a Robbery" and "Made You Look" and readers obsessed with the world of art heists and forgeries. The deadline for your entries is Wednesday, October 6th at noon ET.

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Anne Tyler

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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Anne Tyler, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

Dudley Moore

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

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Dudley Moore

Sicilian proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

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Sicilian proverb

Robert Dugoni, author of The World Played Chess

In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now 40 years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer --- Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life --- dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life and seeking one’s own destiny.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’ words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans --- the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great-grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers --- Ailey carries Du Bois’ Problem on her shoulders. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors --- Indigenous, Black and white --- in the deep South.

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