West of Here: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Jonathan Evison's spectacular second novel.

Jonathan Evison: The TNB Self-Interview

Friday Bloody Friday

Daffy and Me

The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
He can digress, delineate, rant, rave, ponder, speculate, ruminate, fulminate, and bring the story to a screeching halt if it suits his whimsy

When We Fell In Love: Joshua Mohr

50 Things Publishers Shouldn’t Do

JE and JC Tag-Team Dan Chaon
We like the idea that the individual self is a snowflake, inimitable, and that having a twin could be somehow unnatural and even dangerous.

Welcome Home to the Fiction Section
Welcome to the TNB Fiction Section!

Where Have All the Guys Gone?

This Is My First Novel

A Thousand Words: And You Wonder Where I Learned How to Party?

Accepting the Charges; How I Almost Became a Father and Other Near Misses

I’m No Travel Writer, but the Galapagos Were Cool - Part 2

I’m No Travel Writer, but the Galapagos Were Cool
Sea lions livin' the dream. Lazy tiger sharks. Humping turtles. And mediocre beer that tasted good anyway.

Always Fun When the Good Guys Win: An Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of All About Lulu
Two authors talking about books, writing, publishing, work habits, dogs, and rabbits.

A Brief But Heartfelt Tribute to My Mother (Okay, Your Mother, too) from a Shameless Mama’s Boy
Inedible spaghetti sauce. Dreaded stuffed bellpeppers. What once was dreaded now is a source of nostalgia.

How I Became Walt Disney and Why Librarians Cringe When They See Me Coming

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (Everything You Need to Know to Make $8.34 an Hour)
You can learn a lot by wiping butts for a living.

My Family is Weirder Than Your Family– TRUST ME . . . (and I Swear I’m Not Making This Shit Up)