Tag: Virginia Festival of the Book

  • An Interview with Sharon Short

    An Interview with Sharon Short

    Sharon Short is the author of My One Square Inch of Alaska (Penguin Plume, 2013), a novel set in the 1950s that tells the tale of Donna and Will Lane, siblings who, along with Trusty, a Siberian Husky, escape their Ohio hometown and travel to Alaska.  Short’s book Sanity Check: A Collection of Columns includes…

  • An Interview with Betsy Prioleau

    An Interview with Betsy Prioleau

    Betsy Prioleau is the author of Circle of Eros (Duke University Press) and Seductress (Penguin/Viking). She has a Ph.D. from Duke University, was a tenured associate professor at Manhattan College, and taught cultural history at New York University. She has written numerous essays on literature, relationships, and sexuality. She lives in New York City. Her latest…