Brendan Dowling Author Archive

Email: bdowling@ala.org

New Podcast Episode! Celebrate National Voter Registration Day @ Your Library

Want to learn how more public libraries in your state can participate in National Voter Registration Day? NVRD is a nonpartisan civic holiday celebrating democracy, planned for Tuesday, September 20, 2022.

Federal Broadband Funding Guidelines Now Available for States to Begin Planning, Applications

The Conversation Around Policing and Public Libraries

Beyond Yuck and Yum: Programming with Picture Books about Food

Jennifer Close Author Photo

Jennifer Close on How Politics, Pasta, and 90’s Cover Bands Informed Her Hilarious New Novel About a Family in Crisis

Sara Baume Author Photo

“I’m Always Writing in Extremity of My Life” — Sara Baume on Her Gorgeous and Poetic New Novel

Azar Nafisi Author Photo

Azar Nafisi on How Reading Is Crucial To Our Survival

Ruchika Tulshyan Author Photo

“To Make Meaningful Long-Term Change We Have to Take a Systemic Approach To It”—Ruchika Tulshyan on Creating a More Inclusive Workplace

Jane Pek Author Photo

Jane Pek on Subverting Genre Tropes and the “What If” Scenario at the Heart of Her Ingenious New Mystery

Renee Branum Author Photo

Renée Branum on Buster Keaton, Giving Herself More Freedom, and Her Secret Shelf at the Library

Book Cover of Correctional by Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar on His Revelatory Memoir and The Embrace of The Totality of The Experience

Tim O'Brien Author Photo

“Memoir is a Strange Word When you Don’t Remember a Whole Lot” – Tim O’Brien on How Memory, History, and Literature Inform his Joyous New Book

Lynne Truss Author Photo

“Anything That Strikes You As Very Different From Now Is A Very Good Place to Start” – Lynne Truss On Creating The Delightfully Funny World Of Constable Twitten

Jeffrey Lewis Author Photo

“My Process is Usually One of Necessity and Escaping Disaster” — Jeffrey Lewis On His Haunting New Novel

Kevin Young Author Photo

Kevin Young on the Poets in Conversation in His Extraordinary New Anthology

Jo Hamya Author Photo

Jo Hamya on Virginia Woolf, The Worst Bits of Twitter, and The Smell of Library Hand Soap

Elinor Lipman Author Photo

Elinor Lipman On How The Secret Service, An Optometrist, and Shirley Maclaine Helped Craft Her Delightful New Comedy of Manners

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi on Intense Friendships, Memory, and the Alchemical Quality of Language

Nicole Glover Author Photo

Nicole Glover on Pocket Diaries, Floating Books, and Creating the Fantastical World of her Debut Novel

Author photo of Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman on Co-Writing a Novel, Google Doc Etiquette, and Creating the Most Unexpected Relationship of the Summer

Michael Blanding Author Photo

Michael Blanding on Researching the Fascinating Mystery Behind Shakespeare’s Plays

Author Photo of Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Jonathan Parks-Ramage on Subverting the Expectations of Genre and the ‘Fever Dream’ of His New Novel

Brian Broome Author Photo

Brian Broome on Gwendolyn Brooks, Giving Everybody the Benefit of the Doubt, and Why He Loves Writing on the Bus

Norman Ohler Author Photo

Norman Ohler on the Forgotten Members of the Resistance Movement in World War II

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