Maribel Garcia – Page 2 – Book Club Babble

Super Humans, Suspense, and Intrigue: An interview with A.M. Wilhelm about her recent thriller Brainstorm

In A.M. Wilhelm's debut thriller Brainstorm, we first learn about Melissa, a mother in search of the child she once dropped off at the Sunshine Children's Home in D.C. eight years ago. When she discovers that t... Read More...

A Novel Idea and a Labor of Love: The Story of a South Philly Bookstore

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, on Books, on Reading

Maribel Garcia: You two have a very special story. Can you tell us how two newly-weds, working multiple jobs decided to get into the bookselling business and acquired their own store? Christina and Alex: The... Read More...

Daralyse Lyons, author of Yoga Cocaine, on Memoir Writing

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Literary Lagniappe, Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

I never expected to make the transition to writing memoir. As a long-time novelist, I was used to fabricating stories – as opposed to recounting them. But then I realized that the most memorable, most “true,”... Read More...

See something, Say nothing: An interview with Pamela Fernandes about her recent thriller Painting Kuwait Violet

Maribel Garcia

Interviews

What happens when a young college graduate, Violet Baretto leaves her home in India to work in oil-rich Kuwait as a maid for a wealthy Kuwaiti woman? She stands up, not just for herself, but for the most vulne... Read More...

An Interview with Elizabeth Mosier, Author of Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019).

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir

Drawing from her seven-year experience as a technician at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park Archaeology Laboratory as well as her own personal experience, Elizab... Read More...

A Mother’s Day Chat with Janet Benton, Author of Lilli de Jong

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

As difficult as mothering is today, we take for granted how far along we have come. Can you imagine being a single mother in 1883 Philadelphia society? Written as a series of journal entries, in which the title... Read More...

When the Person is the Message by Tucker Lieberman

Maribel Garcia

Literary Lagniappe, on Creativity, on Publishing, on Writing

Most characters deliver messages through their words and actions, but some characters deliver messages through their very being. For years, I was curious about how castrated men were described in literature ... Read More...

An Interview with Tucker Lieberman about his latest book, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Memoir, Reviews

Imagine being thirteen years old, and being called up at your Bat Mitzvah, summoned to recite the blessings before and after the Torah reading. For many Jewish teenagers, this coming of age ritual ceremony mark... Read More...

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Can someone truly abandon their will to survive? And if they do, how does ordinary life test that will? From the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel People Who Knew Me comes the story of thirty-four-... Read More...

Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books: An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, on Books, on Publishing

Classic novels can be intimidating. Tomes like Charlotte Brontë's 600-page Jane Eyre or even the source material for all of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones collection may not always be what appeals to you.... Read More...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Book Club Babble’s January Thriller Pick: Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

Fall in Love with A.R. Taylor’s Jenna Takes the Fall

Elinor Lipman Delights Again with Rachel to the Rescue

The Hereafter Bytes – A Wise and Witty Comedic Sci-Fi

Sorrow – A Tale of Heartache, Hope, and the Power of Art to Change the World

The Edge of Elsewhere – Sam Stea’s Stunning Debut

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Book Club Babble’s January Thriller Pick: Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

White Ivy by Susie Yang: Review and Book Club Questions

The Most Enjoyable Books About the World of Horse Racing

Fall in Love with A.R. Taylor’s Jenna Takes the Fall

Elinor Lipman Delights Again with Rachel to the Rescue

Book Club Babble’s Best of 2020

Paper Towns

What to Watch: The Most Fun and Exciting Movies of 2020

Three Worthy Literary Adaptations to Stream

Can an Adaptation Ever Match the Original Book?

What To Do When You’re Burned Out With Cinematic Universes

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

Giving Your Writing The Professional Edge

How One Writer Learned to be Productive During the Pandemic.

Three Worthy Literary Adaptations to Stream

Super Humans, Suspense, and Intrigue: An interview with A.M. Wilhelm about her recent thriller Brainstorm

A Novel Idea and a Labor of Love: The Story of a South Philly Bookstore

Daralyse Lyons, author of Yoga Cocaine, on Memoir Writing

See something, Say nothing: An interview with Pamela Fernandes about her recent thriller Painting Kuwait Violet

An Interview with Elizabeth Mosier, Author of Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019).

A Mother’s Day Chat with Janet Benton, Author of Lilli de Jong

When the Person is the Message by Tucker Lieberman

An Interview with Tucker Lieberman about his latest book, Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

Ebook-only Publishing Platform for Short Books: An Interview with Industry Game-Changer Brooke Warner

Author Maribel Garcia