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Note: I revisited a chat with the soothsayer A.M. Homes from 2022. Bestselling, award-winning author A.M. Homes, spoke to me about getting sued by J.D. Salinger, the irony of winning the Women's Prize for Fiction, and her latest "The Unfolding." A.M. Homes is a TV producer, art critic, and the author of 13 books, including the bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter. Her last novel, May We Be Forgiven, was the winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Unfolding, described as a "... darkly comedic alternative history that takes us into the heart of a fractured family living in a divided country." New York Times bestselling author Salman Rushdie called the book, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifyingly close to the unfunny truth.” A.M. Homes was a Co-Executive Producer and Writer on David E. Kelly and Stephen King's, Mr. Mercedes, and a writer/producer of the Showtime series The L Word. Her work has been translated into 22 languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot, and she has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton. Stay calm and write on ... [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file A.M. Homes and I discussed: Her early struggles with dyslexia Why awards and votes of confidence are so important for writers How she helped hire Dennis Lehane to write for Mr. Mercedes  Her strange obsession with George Washington and her claim to Capitol Hill How to write your way out of a jam And a lot more! Show Notes: amhomesbooks.com The Unfolding: A Novel by A.M. Homes (Amazon) A.M. Homes on Facebook A.M. Homes on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.M. Homes is author of 13 books including most recently a novel: The Unfolding.  Homes' 2013, May We Be Forgiven, won the Women's Prize for Fiction and her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter was published to international acclaim. Her work has been translated into 22 languages. Gabe talks to the iconic writer A.M. Homes about her new novel, The Unfolding, her renowned Barbie story, "A Real Doll," teaching at Princeton, and her position in the Writers Guild and the WGA strike. Quotes from the episode Why she wrote a Barbie story back in the day I wrote it while I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, and I was really just interested in how, when I was growing up, my mother was like, Barbie's not an appropriate toy for girls to play with, you can't have a Barbie, she's too sexual. And so I wanted to write this theoretically innocent story about a boy who was dating a Barbie doll. How ppl responded to her Barbie when she was in U. of Iowa MFA I went and got one, and I put it on the mantle in my apartment in Iowa City. And everyone who came over started doing things to Barbie and the first thing every person did was they took off her clothes and I was like, weird, like you come into my house and you undress my Barbie? And then they would confess. They would tell me things that either they had done to their Barbie or that their sibling had done to Barbie. And so it immediately became a much more complicated and darker story about... Men and women, to sexuality, to all this kind of stuff that's just under the surface. On why her latest novel, The Unfolding, is a political novel set in 2008 I also am very interested, as one sees in The Unfolding, in the domestic. And so this was a chance in this book to write big and small. Large scale American political landscape, and also American familial landscape, and how that all evolves. Because the novel is really about how we got to now. And the choice to set it in this period between the election inauguration in 2008, I wanted to begin to illustrate how the racism and sexism that was always latent, obviously, and had never really gone away, but when Obama was elected, it also became Much brighter and louder. I think older white men got really scared. And so there absolutely is this sense of what is the underlying threat. Buy A.M. Homes' new novel The Unfolding Buy A.M. Homes' The Safety of Objects Read about A.M. Homes's fictional encounter between Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger Read about A.M. Homes' Embrace the Absurd public art project w Laurie Anderson Visit A.M.'s website and follow her on twitter A.M.'s book recs: Buy Randall Keenan's Black Folk Could Fly Buy Maria Popova's Figuring Buy Henry Hoke's Open Throat Rate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio on podcast app of yr choice Enjoy more Kurt Vonnegut Radio episodes: Sam Lipsyte: Interview Mike Sowden: Interview Sari Botton: Interview Alex Dobrenko: Interview Andrew Leland: Interview On Sinead O'Connor On George Saunders ]On Kurt Vonnegut Follow Kurt Vonnegut Radio on podcast app of your choice Find me on Twitter and Instagram Contact me at gabehudsonpod(at)gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.M. and Miriam discuss what would have happened if, during high school, a particular mentor had encouraged her to study medicine, and she'd gone on to become a doctor. Along the way they discuss the AIDS epidemic, being penpals with Pete Townshend and the importance of being truly seen, both within medicine and in life.A.M. Homes is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women's Prize in 2013, This Book Will Save Your Life, a Rickhard and Judy pick in 2007, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack; three collections of short stories and the highly acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir Los Angeles. A Washington DC native, she currently teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City. A.M.'s new novel, The Unfolding, is out now from Granta Books and is available in all good bookshops.Make sure to subscribe to hear the rest of Season 3 – in each episode, Miriam Robinson interviews a guest about another path their life might have taken. Together, step by step, they write the stories of their unlived lives. Produced by Neil Mason #MyUnlivedLife Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bestselling, award-winning author A.M. Homes, spoke to me about getting sued by J.D. Salinger, the irony of winning the Women's Prize for Fiction, and her latest "The Unfolding." A.M. Homes is a TV producer, art critic, and the author of 13 books, including the bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter. Her last novel, May We Be Forgiven, was the winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Unfolding, described as a "... darkly comedic alternative history that takes us into the heart of a fractured family living in a divided country." New York Times bestselling author Salman Rushdie called the book, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifyingly close to the unfunny truth.” A.M. Homes was a Co-Executive Producer and Writer on David E. Kelly and Stephen King's, Mr. Mercedes, and a writer/producer of the Showtime series The L Word. Her work has been translated into 22 languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot, and she has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton. Stay calm and write on ... Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please "Follow" us to automatically see new interviews. In this file A.M. Homes and I discussed: Her early struggles with dyslexia Why awards and votes of confidence are so important for writers How she helped hire Dennis Lehane to write for Mr. Mercedes  Her strange obsession with George Washington and her claim to Capitol Hill How to write your way out of a jam And a lot more! Show Notes: amhomesbooks.com The Unfolding: A Novel by A.M. Homes (Amazon) A.M. Homes on Facebook A.M. Homes on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her first novel since the Women's Prize award-winning May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes delivers us back to ourselves in this stunning alternative history that is both terrifyingly prescient, deeply tender and devastatingly funny.The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject—history—is not exactly what her father taught her.In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power, Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth, freedom and democracy—and exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof.From the writer who is always “razor sharp and furiously good” (Zadie Smith), a darkly comic political parable braided with a Bildungsroman that takes us inside the heart of a divided country.Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop - ​https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9780735225350

In her first novel since the Women's Prize award-winning May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes delivers us back to ourselves in this stunning alternative history that is both terrifyingly prescient, deeply tender and devastatingly funny.The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject—history—is not exactly what her father taught her.In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power, Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth, freedom and democracy—and exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof.From the writer who is always “razor sharp and furiously good” (Zadie Smith), a darkly comic political parable braided with a Bildungsroman that takes us inside the heart of a divided country.Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop - ​https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9780735225350

Roberto Bentivegna was born in London of Italian parents. He grew up in Milan and London, attending Emerson College in Boston before pursuing an MFA at Columbia University. His short films have screened at international film festivals including Locarno, Atlanta, and Miami, and are distributed by Film Movement and Shorts International. Whilst at Columbia University, Roberto was awarded the Carla Kuhn fellowship, the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting award and the Faculty Selects for "A Day in March". He was a finalist in the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship. His screenplays include "Shella" for acclaimed photographer Albert Watson; "The Eel" starring Sam Rockwell and Maria Bello- which was featured on the Black List and he will be directing; "Spirit House" for Film Nation; an adaptation of A.M. Homes's "May We Be Forgiven" for director Lynne Ramsay and Artificial Eye; "The Disappearance of a Quiet Man" for producers Chris Coen and Alan Moloney. Roberto was awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, and was a fellow in the Italian Government's Apulia Film program.

Lord we have sinned

AM Homes won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 for her novel May We Be Forgiven, beating off stellar competition from Hilary Mantel, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith. Kirsty Lang has been finding AM's darkly comic novels and short stories perfect reading for the lockdown. Her writing penetrates contemporary America, with characters who are pulled apart by accidents, trauma, jealousy, chance encounters and who must examine their lives in order to start over again. The stories are wickedly funny, relentless in their pace and often redemptive. In this extended Front Row interview, AM talks to Kirsty about recovering from Covid-19, growing up in Washington DC and her fascination with Nixon; why she loves to write male protagonists, her lack of inhibition when writing sex scenes - and the challenges of satirising our strange times. She also reads from and talks about her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, which tells the story of how she was given up for adoption on the day she was born. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man. Thirty-one years later, her birth mother tracked her down. Presenter : Kirsty Lang Producer : Dymphna Flynn Studio Manager: Nigel Dix Harry Silver.....David Seddon Narrator.....Darcey Halsey Richard Novak.....Tony Pasqualini Emergency Operator.....Adriana Sevan Patty.....Lisa Pelikan Main image above: A. M. Homes

Jessica and I are superfans of the Morning News Tournament of Books, and have participated as readers for several years. We are not official partners of the Tournament, nor does it belong to us, but we are hopeful that all involved will take this as a fancast and that readers who haven't heard of it will participate next time. Both of us have encountered books through the Tournament we would never have read otherwise. In this bonus episode, we focus on the books from this year's Tournament (both the long and shortlist) but also end up talking about some highlights from previous years. Ready your brackets, this is the only madness happening in March!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 183: Birthing Rabbits with Jessica.Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed:Most books will be best viewed here on the Tournament of Books site2020 bracketToB 2020 ShortlistToB 2020 Longlist (this is your 2020 reading list!)Other mentions:Cantoras by Carolina di RobertisThe Museum of Modern Love by Heather RoseCity of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganThe Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWittWhite Tears by Hari KunzruMay We Be Forgiven by A.M. HomesHill William by Scott McClanahanCrapalachia by Scott McClanahanThe Sarah Book by Scott McClanahanExit West by Mohsin HamidStephen Florida by Gabe HabashThe Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadRed at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonBangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya SudbanthadA Girl Returned by Donatella di PietrantonioSabrina & Corina: Stories by Kaji Fajardo-AnstineOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutOlive, Again by Elizabeth StroutMy Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutVery Nice by Marcy DermanskyPatsy by Nicole Dennis-BennDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmanA Woman is No Man by Etaf RumSave Me the Plums by Ruth ReichlThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenThe Dutch House by Ann Patchett Related episodes:Episode 110 - The Accidental Love Episode with Casey StepaniukEpisode 150 - Rife with Storytelling with SaraEpisode 163 - Fainting Goats with LaurenEpisode 166 - On Brand with KarenEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with ReggieEpisode 175 - Reading on Impulse with Marion HillEpisode 178 - Precarious Pile with Ruth(iella)Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJessica at Goodreads Jenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and LitsyJessica is @the bluestocking on Litsy

In this episode Zing Tsjeng is joined by chef, bestselling cookbook author and sustainability champion Melissa Hemsley, radio producer, podcast host and writer Joe Haddow and creator and co-host of the Mostly Lit podcast, Raifa Rafiq.The theme of today's #ReadingWomen book club is siblings. The panel discuss three books that, in various ways, have brothers and sisters at their heart. They are A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore, the Prize's very first winner back in 1996, May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes which won in 2013, and The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney, 2016's winner.Every fortnight, join Zing Tsjeng, editor at VICE, and inspirational guests, including Dolly Alderton, Stanley Tucci, Liv Little and Scarlett Curtis as they celebrate the best fiction written by women. They'll discuss the diverse back-catalogue of Women’s Prize-winning books spanning a generation, explore the life-changing books that sit on other women’s bookshelves and talk about what the future holds for women writing today. The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, and this series will also take you behind the scenes throughout 2020 as we explore the history of the Prize in its 25th year and gain unique access to the shortlisted authors and the 2020 Prize winner. Sit back and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For our final episode in season one we tackle our nearest (if not dearest). Jeanette Winterson talks about how being adopted has shaped her concept of family and why the future may not look great for its traditional form. A. M. Homes, another adopted child, talks about the differences of writing about family in fiction and memoir. And to finish off we hear from Emilie Pine about her honest and frank personal essay collection and how she managed to share the intimate details of her family life. BOOKS MENTIONED: Frankissstein, This Brutal House, The Mistresses' Daughter, May We Be Forgiven, Notes To Self, The Unmumsy Mum, Never Mind, Educated.

A M Homes talks to James Naughtie about her book May We Be Forgiven

In the latest Granta podcast, Yuka Igarashi talks to A.M. Homes, the recipient of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack; the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know; and the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter (Granta Books). As a followup to an interview when May We Be Forgiven was published, they spoke about what winning the prize means to her. They also discussed family and the American Dream as themes in her book, why the Korean translation of one of her novels comes with a coupon for Dunkin Donuts, and the influence that her writing teacher Grace Paley had on her work and life.

May We Be Forgiven (Viking Books) Highly acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and memoirist A.M. Homes (The End of Alice, The Mistress's Daughter, This Book Will Save Your Life) returns to Skylight to read and sign her first work of fiction in six years, May We Be Forgiven. Praise for The Mistress's Daughter: "To my generation of writers, Homes is a kind of hero, and The Mistress's Daughter is the latest example of her fearlessness and brilliance. It is a compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty that few of us would risk." --Zadie Smith Praise for This Book Will Save Your Life: "Homes is a top-drawer writer, knowing and economical." --Seattle Times A.M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress's Daughter and the books This Book Will Change Your Life, Music For Torching, The Safety of Objects and many others. She lives in New York City. Photo of the author by Marion Ettlinger. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS ON OCTOBER 10, 2012. Copies of book from this event can be purchased here: http://tinyurl.com/baqkg4s

Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution.

American author and sometime writer of the TV series, The L Word, A.M. Homes reads from her new novel May We Be Forgiven, described by Salman Rushdie as no less as 'flat-out amazing'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.M. Homes discusses her poignant and funny new book May We Be Forgiven. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles and Brigid Keenan, who have both written memoirs about diplomatic life, discuss the real story behind the embassy door. And award winning author Kim Scott talks about how his latest novel, That Deadman Dance, explores the fractious relationship between white and indigenous peoples in western Australia and its oppressive and emotional impact.

A.M. Homes reads the story May We Be Forgiven, which appeared in Granta 100, and discusses her writing life, followed by a Question and Answer session with moderator Aoibheann Sweeney and the audience. Recorded in the BAM Lepercq Space as part of the Eat, Drink and Be Literary reading series. Presented in partnership with BAM. www.nationalbook.org