John Sayles

Jan 30, 2025 | nepm.org | Monte Belmonte |John Sayles

Published January 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST Ways To Subscribe Apple NPR One TuneIn Google Spotify 1 of 2  — Untitled-1.png John Sayles, author of "To Save the Man," talked to The Fabulous 413 before his talk at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley. Courtesy 2 of 2  — word nerd for grove.png The Word Nerd with Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam-Webster, is a recurring weekly segment on The Fabulous 413.

Oct 26, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | John Sayles |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.

Sep 13, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Amanda Lee Koe |Elias Khoury |Lily Tuck |John Sayles

Ali Smith. Pantheon, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-70156-0Smith (How to Be Both) delivers an ingenious speculative novel in which two children come to terms with the mysteries of their unnamed country, which carries a whiff of post-Brexit England. The narrator, a 16-year-old boy named Brice, accompanies his younger sister, Rose, to see off their mother after she’s forced to leave for work in a far-off city. Upon returning to their house, the siblings find it encircled with a red line.

May 19, 2023 | wsj.com | John Sayles

Detail of ‘The Mutineers Turning Lt. Bligh and Part of the Officers and Crew Adrift From His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty’ (1790) by Robert Dodd.