Authors

Nicole Krauss has established herself as one of our leading American novelists with books like "The History of Love" and "Man Walks into a Room." She has further solidified that status with the amazing "Great House" which is just coming out in paperback. It is the story of a desk and a lot more.

Continuing with our series of faculty readings from the 2011 Antioch Writers' Workshop, Joyce Dyer is the author of 4 books and an English professor at Hiram College in Ohio. 

Here she reads an essay that originally appeared in Come What May: an Anthology of Writings about Chance.  It's called "Reunion."

On August 22, 1911 the Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. It took a couple of years to recover the painting. It had been taken by an Italian nationalist who hoped to repatriate the painting back to Italy.

Continuing our series of faculty readings from this summer's Antioch Writers' Workshop, we hear from Rakesh Satyal.  Satyal is the author of Blue Boy and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.  He's also an editor at HarperCollins.

In this selection Satyal reads from a new novel in progress called They Couldn't Pronounce Our Names.

Juana the Mad has been depicted by some historians as a 16th century Spanish queen who was insane. She was the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Juana was so far down the chain of succession that she was never expected to ascend to the throne.

But she did. Then she spent most of her long life as a virtual prisoner while a succession of men, her husband, her father, then her son, ruled Juana's empire while she languished in seclusion. Lynn Cullen was intrigued by the rather mythical aspects of Juana's reign. She decided to write a historical novel about it.