Books Quote by Cherise Wolas

“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...”

— Cherise Wolas

I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book…

— Karen Abbott

Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing…

— Nicholas Delbanco

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that…

— Mira Bartok

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

— George Harrison

What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might…

— Erik Larson

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading…

— Margot Livesey

“Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.”

— Freya North

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

“world; my brilliant, insightful and lovely UK editors Selina Walker and Georgina Hawtrey-Woore for believing and making things even better; Dan Balado for seeing…

— Samantha Hayes