All posts by NancyKay Shapiro

November 10th, 2011

From Helplessness to Competence

Lily Tuck’s engaging new novel I Married You For Happiness explores a 40-year-plus marriage from the vantage of one night. …more

January 20th, 2011

The Intimates

Ralph Sassone’s first novel explores the devastating emotional craters of first love, and the bumpy, baffling relations between the generations. …more

August 19th, 2010

Welcome to the Occupation

A short novel by Michael Knight sees the post-WWII occupation of Japan through the eyes of a confused typist in General MacArthur’s office.  …more

June 22nd, 2010

Boys and Girls Like You and Me

“The earth was crowded with people who would never try to find me if I disappeared. A person is missing only if another person misses them.” …more

February 17th, 2010

NancyKay Shapiro: The Last Book I Loved, The Brontës Went to Woolworths

There is nothing else quite lik Rachel Ferguson’s The Brontës Went to Woolworths, in which a family of sisters and their widowed mother in 1920s London live a most unusual life of the mind.

The Carne family are arty and bohemian, but solidly upper class …more

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NancyKay Shapiro is the author of What Love Means to You People, a novel, and is at work on a novel that explores the adventures of a minor character from Jane Eyre. She lives in New York City.

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