How Award-Winning & Bestselling Author A.M. Homes Writes

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.
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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


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