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Craig Nova is the author of 14 novels including The Good Son. He has received awards in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
There are many memoirs of unhappy childhoods spent in dysfunctional families, but rarely have they been penned by a writer gifted with such energy and breadth of vision.
Amal Ghandour has a conversation with Hanan al Shaykh on her recent publication of One Thousand and One Nights
Michael Causey talks with Independent President David O. Stewart about his debut novel, The Lincoln Deception.
Masha Hamilton is currently working in Afghanistan as Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the US Embassy. She is the author of five acclaimed novels, most recently What Changes Everything.
The Caretaker is A.X. Ahmad’s first book. He was educated at Vassar and MIT. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Harvard Review, The New England Review and Narrative Magazine.
Wil Haygood is a Washington Post writer and author of several books, including The Butler: A Witness to History.
A Q&A with the author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
