Leigh Haber

1 month ago | pressherald.com | Leigh Haber

Emma Donoghue is a master of locked room fiction. In her 2010 blockbuster, “Room,” a mother and son are held captive in an 11-by-11-foot shed for years. Within those walls, Donoghue created an expansive world by turns joyous and disturbing. The author’s riveting new novel, “The Paris Express,” is similarly contained though the effect is vastly different. Here, her characters are strangers on a train, confined together aboard Engine 721, bound for the City of Light.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Leigh Haber

Emma Donoghue is a master of locked room fiction. In her 2010 blockbuster, “Room,”a mother and son are held captive in an 11-by-11-foot shed for years. Within those walls, Donoghue created an expansive world by turns joyous and disturbing.The author’s riveting new novel, “The Paris Express,” is similarly contained though the effect is vastly different. Here, her characters are strangers on a train, confined together aboard Engine 721, bound for the City of Light.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Leigh Haber

Bestselling “Prep” and “Romantic Comedy” author Curtis Sittenfeld dwells in the comically awkward. In her utterly diverting collection of 12 short stories, “Show Don’t Tell,” she contemplates youthful insecurity and first love; the quandary of privilege; the satisfactions of friendship; the disappointments of marriage; and the perils of writerly ambition.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Leigh Haber

Bestselling “Prep” and “Romantic Comedy” author Curtis Sittenfeld dwells in the comically awkward. In her utterly diverting collection of 12 short stories, “Show Don’t Tell,” she contemplates youthful insecurity and first love; the quandary of privilege; the satisfactions of friendship; the disappointments of marriage; and the perils of writerly ambition.

Jan 15, 2025 | latimes.com | Leigh Haber

In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could I embrace the world?” Grappling with existential angst is a thread that runs throughout Han’s fiction, most notably in the Man Booker-winning “The Vegetarian,” in which the main character renounces meat and eventually believes she’s turning into a plant.