Susan Coll

Jan 19, 2025 | pressherald.com | Susan Coll

Here’s a question for the gods of publishing: Is launching a debut novel about a family riven by partisan politics just before a divisive leader once again takes office a good idea, or will readers prefer to stick their heads in the sand and read the classics or watch trash TV for the next four years?

Jan 8, 2025 | infobae.com | Susan Coll

He aquí una pregunta para los dioses de la edición: ¿es una buena idea lanzar una primera novela sobre una familia dividida por la política partidista justo antes de que un líder divisivo vuelva a tomar posesión de su cargo, o preferirán los lectores meter la cabeza en la arena y leer los clásicos o ver la tele basura durante los próximos cuatro años?

Aug 10, 2024 | pressherald.com | Susan Coll

Virgil, an aggressively handsome but lackluster insurance salesman, has concerns about his wife. On an unseasonably warm November day, Kathleen has dipped herself into the swimming pool at their apartment complex in suburban Delaware and won’t come out. “The men at Equitable had spoken of ‘episodes’ with their wives, and Virgil worried that’s what this was turning into. A bona fide episode.”It is around this single “episode” that “The Most,” Jessica Anthony’s spare, elegant novella, revolves.

Aug 4, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Susan Coll

Author Jessica Anthony. (Matt Cosby )Review by Susan CollAugust 4, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EDTVirgil, an aggressively handsome but lackluster insurance salesman, has concerns about his wife. On an unseasonably warm November day, Kathleen has dipped herself into the swimming pool at their apartment complex in suburban Delaware and won’t come out. “The men at Equitable had spoken of ‘episodes’ with their wives, and Virgil worried that’s what this was turning into.

Jul 26, 2024 | texarkanagazette.com | Susan Coll |Karin Tanabe

When dark clouds roll in, do you stay and weather the storm, or do you run toward blue skies? For Cassie Klein, the main character in Susan Coll's new novel, "Real Life and Other Fictions," the answer has long been run. A creative writing professor at a community college, Cassie is married to a meteorologist and getting ahead of the weather is something she knows she's supposed to do.