Samantha Peale

Samantha Peale is the author of the novel The American Painter Emma Dial (Norton). She’s at work on her second novel.

Honeymoon, with Mermaids

Samantha Peale reviews Lydia Millet’s 'Mermaids in Paradise'...

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Footnotes No More: An Interview with Victoria Patterson

Victoria Patterson: “Give me a character dealing with terrible, searing regret, and I’m hooked.”...

The Dire Year: An Interview with Tamara Shopsin

AT THE END of a weekend visit, I found Tamara Shopsin’s Mumbai New York Scranton on the dining table of my parents’ house in New Jersey. The matte grass green of the cover beckoned me from amid the low piles ...

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Thanksgiving West

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