Karen Thompson Walker, author of Summer ’12 Discover pick The Age of Miracles talks about choosing her book’s title, “the hidden pleasure of apocalyptic stories,” and Charlotte Rogan’s debut novel, The Lifeboat, also a Summer ’12 Discover pick.
Jill Eisenstadt’s debut, From Rockaway, was bound by the nihilistic routines of a trio of lifeguards who spend their summers surveying New York’s Rockaway Beach. Though still young, their lives already seem decided, split between watching the waves and working blue-collar jobs in the cold months. Her latest, Swell, returns to the shore thirty years […]