Carol Edgarian

San Francisco

Editor and Co-Founder at Narrative Magazine

NYT bestselling writer VERA, RISE THE EUPHRATES, 3 STAGES OF AMAZEMENT. Cofounder @NarrativeMag. Friends & fellow worders, I’ve hoofed it to IG and Threads

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Articles

Narrative 10 | Narrative Magazine

1 month ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

We are celebrating Chris Bohjalian’s work and his latest novel, The Jackal’s Mistress, with a visit from our N10 interview series:1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life? Ah, “character.” As in the state of her moral compass: “Her character was unimpeachable, and that was why everyone looked up to her.” Or “character,” that person who was, for better or worse, bigger than life: “He had zero filter and would say anything. He was such a character.
Narrative 10 | Narrative Magazine

2 months ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

We caught up with Allegra Goodman as she marks the publication of her new novel, Isola. 1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life? I can’t choose just one! In fiction my favorite characters include Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace, Huck and Jim in Huckleberry Finn, Mary Garth and Camden Farebrother in Middlemarch. Like colors in a painting, characters in fiction take on their particular hues in relation to each other. 2.
Narrative 10 | Narrative Magazine

Dec 23, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

On the occasion of Narrative cofounder and editor Tom Jenks’s new book, My Reading: James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” being published, Narrative has a few burning questions for the author. 1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life?
Narrative 10 | Narrative Magazine

Oct 28, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian
Rounds by Rhoni Blankenhorn

Jul 15, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

A Poem Share Facebook Threads Twitter Reddit Forward Print Copy link In celebration of twenty years of publishing, we asked prior Narrative Prize winners to select and introduce new writers to our readers. In the coming months, our series NARRATIVE NEXT will feature the writers our winners have chosen.
Narrative 10 | Narrative Magazine

May 20, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

Share Facebook Threads Twitter Reddit Forward Print Copy link On the occasion of R. O. Kwon’s stunning new novel, Exhibit, being published, Narrative has a few burning questions for the author. 1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life? It’s hard to pick one, but the ambitious, complicated Madame Merle in The Portrait of a Lady is endlessly fascinating to me.
Tina Turner and My Father | Narrative Magazine

May 13, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

Back when Tina Turner was Anna Mae Bullock and attending Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri, she would regularly cross the Mississippi River to hear live music at nightclubs in East St. Louis, Illinois. Crossing the river meant crossing state lines and states of mind; it meant crossing toward the beginnings of her life as Tina Turner. It was at the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis where she first heard Ike Turner play with his band, Kings of Rhythm.
Old Friend | Narrative Magazine

Mar 4, 2024 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

“I am sure sorrow willfollow you until death.”Late at night, her text pings through. It’s true, but? Already a reader? Sign In
A Pandemonium of Want | Narrative Magazine

Oct 2, 2023 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

An Essay It’s been two months. I’m visiting our neighbors of twenty years on their shaded front porch. Retired AP reporters, they love to chat about books and local politics. They pour me a mug of delicious dark chicory coffee, while Ella, our black Lab mix, makes herself at home. She’s thirteen now. She was mostly my husband Malcolm’s, but since he died, she’s become only mine. When a male pit bull passes by, I hold her like a hug, until he’s out of range.
Make It Black | Narrative Magazine

Sep 11, 2023 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

Through the screened windows of her bedroom she can hear them, hundreds, maybe thousands of them munching on the leaves of her oaks and maples and other trees she cannot name, even though she has lived in these woods for over twenty years. It’s after midnight, and beside her in the darkness Michael sleeps, his big hairless chest rising and falling.