Ask the Author: Lynn C. Miller
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Lynn C. Miller
What fun to go to the book world of the 1920's and 1930's and experience the New York of, for instance, Amor Towles' "The Rules of Civility." Fascinating details of when the city was a smaller world.
Lynn C. Miller
taking a perfectly ordinary family and putting them in a terrible difficulty is a recipe for a horror story. So, for instance, a good father finds out that another man has taken over his identity and installed himself in his house with his family.
Lynn C. Miller
Arcadia by Iain Pears; Exposure by Helen Dunmore; A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell
Lynn C. Miller
Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer in Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence." The novel is such a brilliant look at desire thwarted by social convention. The characters are richly layered and compelling.
Lynn C. Miller
Am currently writing a novel about a group of women friends and colleagues in Austin, TX who go to a conference in Silver City, NM where they perform famous women in history.
Lynn C. Miller
I started thinking how silence in a family about unpleasant or traumatic events can poison the most vulnerable member of the group. This led me to the story of a woman whose fraternal twin dies when they are eleven; she blames her older brother for the death. This relationship--of the surviving brother and the protagonist--haunts the novel.
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