17 Jul 2015
Interview with Isaac Oliver, author of Intimacy Idiot
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Tell us a little bit about your new release, Irrepressible. My great aunt Henrietta Bingham was almost never mentioned while I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, but when I heard that she'd spent time in London among the Bloomsbury crowd (the coterie of intellectuals and artists that formed around Virginia Woolf and her sister the painter Vanessa Bell) I took notice. And when my grandmother said in an aside during an oral history I did with her in the 1990s that she was incredibly sophisticated and alluring, but "an invert, you know," I was intrigued.
Tell us a little bit about your new release, The Mountain Story. It’s a story about four hikers lost together in the mountain wilderness that overlooks Palm Springs. Four people. Five days. Three survivors. Eighteen-year-old Wolf Truly goes up the mountain with the intention of taking his life and instead meets three strangers who change him forever.
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Stereotypes, sexuality, and destructive rumors collide in this smart YA novel for fans of Sara Zarr’s Story of a Girl, Siobhan Vivian’s The List, and E. Lockhart’s The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Sign up for our email and we’ll send you the best new books in your favorite genres...
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