Elaine Szewczyk

Krakow

Writer @publishersWkly Novelist https://t.co/giMdaDeGwK In @mcsweeneys. Member @WGAEast 10yrs fiction editor @KirkusReviews. Now books-film-TV.

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André Aciman: Hopeless Romantic

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

André Aciman is a romantic—if a reluctant one—who writes about the joy of finding love and the fleeting nature of amorous entanglements. “I’m a very cruel person, don’t be fooled, but by and large I am romantic,” Aciman says over Zoom from his Manhattan dining room, where he occasionally works. “There is something magical that can happen between two individuals.
There and Back with Wally Lamb

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

When Wally Lamb’s first two novels became commercial hits, it felt like a dream come true—until it didn’t. In 1997, the author won the literary lottery: Oprah Winfrey selected his fiction debut, She’s Come Undone, for her book club, turning it into a #1 bestseller. A year later, Lamb’s follow-up, I Know This Much Is True, was also selected—cementing Lamb’s reputation as one of America’s most beloved and recognizable novelists.
Morgan Jerkins’s Epic Love

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

It started with a love letter. In 2020, Morgan Jerkins was looking for ideas for a new novel when a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem sent her a letter, written in 1863. The four-page letter was from an enslaved man, James Tate, living on a plantation in the South, to his wife, Olivia, who resided on another plantation.
A Visit to Shel Silverstein's Archives

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

Shel Silverstein was an irrepressible creative spirit and globetrotting troubadour who traveled around Europe, Asia, and Africa and wrote whenever inspiration hit—in notebooks, on napkins, restaurant placemats, and paper bags.
The Wild Life of Lydia Millet

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

In spring 1999, Lydia Millet impulsively purchased a dilapidated house in the desert outside of Tucson, Ariz., on the edge of Saguaro National Park West, and relocated there from New York City to start a new life—one set against a landscape of sage and cacti, teeming with wildlife, from bobcats and coyotes to rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Built in the 1950s, the place—which Millet shares with her partner, Aaron; one of her two kids; and two dogs—is a bit of a lovable mess.
Binnie Kirshenbaum Knows Life Is Stranger Than Fiction

Jan 17, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

In 2012, Binnie Kirshenbaum began to suspect that something was wrong with her husband. Anthony, an accomplished scientist and academic, was experiencing periodic hallucinations. On one occasion, he thought he saw two women sitting at a table in the street drinking wine. On another he saw clowns, then a baseball game. Kirshenbaum and her husband consulted doctors as his cognitive slips and odd behavior—he would put milk in the freezer, disappear for nine-hour walks—accelerated.
Karen Russell Wants You to Remember This

Jan 3, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

“Karen Russell wrote a dance opera, The Night Falls, in collaboration with choreographer Troy Schumacher and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Of her own rhythmic stylings she says, ‘I dance like Charlie Brown from the Peanuts gang.’ ”When Karen Russell needs a quiet place to write in her house in Portland, Ore., which she shares with her husband, Tony, and their young two kids, she heads straight for her husband’s office. “It’s the only calm and serene room,” Russell says over Zoom.
Geraldine Brooks’s New Normal

Nov 29, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

On May 27, 2019, Geraldine Brooks’s husband of 35 years, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and historian Tony Horwitz, died of a heart attack on a street in Washington, D.C., while on a book tour. The death of Brooks’s best friend and sounding board, with whom she reported news stories around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, left her shell-shocked.
Grady Hendrix’s Creepy Vibes

Nov 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

When horror writer Grady Hendrix and his wife, Amanda, moved into their new apartment in Manhattan last year, Hendrix was excited for the extra space and city views—until the day, this past March, in a twist worthy of one of his novels, he discovered a termite nest in the living room floor. “We walked in, and the floor was blanketed in dead termites,” Hendrix recalls over Zoom from his home office, which became a storage closet for the living room furniture while the floor was repaired.
Inside Out with Adam Haslett

Nov 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk

For Adam Haslett, clutter is anathema to creativity. The author’s workroom in his house in Upstate New York, where he lives part of the year with his partner, is sparsely decorated. Save for a black-and-white framed photograph of a spiral staircase that a friend shot in Italy, the walls are bare, which is how Haslett prefers it. “I want to be able to look through the walls, into whatever is going on in my mind, as opposed to looking at objects,” Haslett says.

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Elaine Szewczyk @stupidnovel

21 Apr 25

Here’s my @PublishersWkly profile of André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name (made into a film w/Timothée Chalamet) & Enigma Variations, now in development at Netflix. His latest is Room on the Sea, novellas about love & loss, out in June @fsgbooks.❤️ https://t.co/A5yrszdbb3

Elaine Szewczyk @stupidnovel

18 Mar 25

Here's my @PublishersWkly profile of Wally Lamb. His gripping new novel The River Is Waiting--about an addict who's sent to jail after causing the accidental death of his child--is out in May from @MSRBooks. ❤️ https://t.co/hw8ORJ6Q3g

Elaine Szewczyk @stupidnovel

10 Mar 25

Here's my @PublishersWkly profile of @MorganJerkins. Morgan's new novel Zeal (out in April) spans 150+ years of Black history and was inspired by a letter written during the Civil War. Thx for the great talk Morgan! And thanks @rgay❤️ @HarperCollins https://t.co/BqYFI43Aeh