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Jane Ciabattari’s reviews, interviews, and cultural reporting have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Guardian, NPR.org, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, O the Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, and The East Hampton Star, among others. She is vice president/online and former president of the National Book Critics Circle and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire. Her recent short stories are online at The Literarian, KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama, and Lost Magazine, and in Long Island Noir, edited by Kaylie Jones.

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The Novelist Who’s Obsessed With Code

Two Worlds

Acclaimed novelist Vikram Chandra is equally obsessed with the tech world of computer coding and the realm of imagination. He talks about the two realities.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Aug 29, 2014

Yiyun Li Takes on Evil

Though born in Beijing Yiyun Li writes English better than most native writers. She talks about her new book, her childhood, and the darkness of humanity.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Feb 27, 2014

Allende Hate-Writes a Mystery

Confused

Bestseller author Isabel Allende caused a furor when she dismissed mysteries while she herself was promoting her new novel, a mystery itself. She talks to Jane Ciabattari about the controversy and why she tried her hand at the genre.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Feb 23, 2014

The Tricky Business of Sex

Silk and Lace

<p>Novelist Amy Tan talks about her new novel, <i>The Valley of Amazement</i>, set in a Shanghai courtesan house, how she researched Chinese history, and learning how to write about sex.</p>

Jane Ciabattari | Published Nov 08, 2013

Murder, She Wrote

Sociopaths

Jayne Anne Phillips talks about her new novel, ‘Quiet Dell,’ inspired by the ‘Bluebeard’ murders in Depression-era West Virginia, one of America’s most sensational serial killings.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Oct 21, 2013

How Terry Got Her Groove Back

All About Grandma

<p>Terry McMillan talks about the power of family ties and her new novel, <i>Who Asked You?</i> with Jane Ciabattari.</p>

Jane Ciabattari | Published Sep 30, 2013

Faulkner of Oil Country

Rick Bass

Rick Bass, one of America’s great writers of the West, talks about his new novel and the glory days of George Plimpton.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Aug 22, 2013

The House that Slavery Built

Invisible Manor

Mac Griswold tells Jane Ciabattari about an estate near the Hamptons that used to be one of the largest slave-owning plantations in the North.

Jane Ciabattari | Published Jul 15, 2013

The Way Home

After War

<p>How do you return from war? That was the question Roxana Robinson set out to answer in her new novel, <i>Sparta</i>. She spoke to Jane Ciabattari about how she researched the experiences of veterans—and why she used that title.</p>

Jane Ciabattari | Published Jun 03, 2013

Happy Short Story Month!

May Reads

May is Short Story Month. Here are Jane Ciabattari’s favorite new collections, from an ironic new voice to a posthumous release.

Jane Ciabattari | Published May 24, 2013

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