Elaine Szewczyk
Writer at Freelance
Writer at Publishers Weekly
Writer @publishersWkly Novelist https://t.co/giMdaDeGwK In @mcsweeneys. Member @WGAEast 10yrs fiction editor @KirkusReviews. Now books-film-TV.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk
Books are a part of the landscape in Helen Schulman’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In the dining room, they compete for space among the tchotchkes and old family photos. They’re in the bedroom, too, and on the floors and tables. “It’s a mess,” Schulman says of the apartment, where she lives with her husband, the author Bruce Handy. “Our whole house is like somebody else’s garage. My son, when he was little, asked, ‘Is daddy a hoarder?’ We’re not the most organized, but it’s warm.
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3 weeks ago |
mcsweeneys.net | Elaine Szewczyk
Have you ever wanted to use gasoline as lipstick? Or wished someone would start a campfire up your nose? That’s what it feels like to eat the new Pringles Hot Ones. A chance to be transported to the surface of the sun without your shoes on. I don’t usually eat Pringles. But I was recently dumped, and it’s left me with a lot of free time to go to the grocery store with my critical mother. She was raised in Poland during communism. Even her hugs are violent.
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1 month ago |
publishersweekly.com | Elaine Szewczyk
Love works in mysterious and sometimes messy ways—just ask Christine Pride. A few years ago, Pride, 48, got another shot at romance when she reconnected with two of her ex-boyfriends, both of whom she had first dated more than 20 years earlier. Pride dated the men again, back-to-back, in 2020 and 2021—and one of them, Ian, has been her partner ever since.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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Love, foolish love. Here's my @PublishersWkly profile of Helen Schulman. Helen's dazzling new story collection, Fools for Love, is out in July from @AAKnopf. Her last book, Lucky Dogs, has been optioned by Kaia Gerber/Library Science. @penguinrandom https://t.co/j2UpG3tDkm
