Category Archives: Issue #6

From the Page to Stage: When Writers Speak

A talented writer does not a speaker make.  Go to enough literary events, and you’re bound to experience this first hand.  You love the work, have read the author’s novels or memoir and recommended the titles to everyone you know.  But when you see them in person?  Just. Not. The Same. It’s unfortunate, but occasionally it happens. Authors, after all, frequently live an existence of isolation, in communion with the page alone.  But as all literary event coordinators know, the best way to ensure success of any community or campus reads programs is to include the author for a community event.  But what if the author is a terrible speaker?

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Author Interview: Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler, the author of We are All Completely Beside Ourselves, recently answered questions from Books in Common about her book and speaking experiences at Community Reads and All Campus Reads programs.

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A Look At: One Book Yuma

Books in Common had the opportunity to ask Sarah Wisdom, of One Book Yuma, some questions on setting up their Community Reads programs and the response in her community.

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Books Reviews

BIC reviews, Wool, by Hugh Howey; Gaining Ground, by Forrest Pritchard and The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande.

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Recent BIC Events

Christina Baker Kline at Moses Lake, WA

An excited crowd came out to meet #1 New York Times bestseller Christina Baker Kline in Moses Lake,WA this February, including a 12-year-old girl who checked out Orphan Train just before Christina’s arrival and decided to stay for the Orphan Train presentation. Said librarian Paula Walters: “She for sure will be a lifelong reader!! Also, I have been getting emails from members of our book clubs thanking me. Moses Lake was just thrilled.”

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Author Interview: Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin is the author of, Blue Tattoo and Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. Books in Common recently asked her a few questions on her Community/Campus Reads speaking engagements, and how her books work as subjects for these programs.

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