Art In Fiction

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Lynn Cullen, author of When We Were Brilliant, listed in the Photography and Film categories on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/86MVn-3LjhY Eve Arnold, the only woman Marilyn Monroe ever let photograph her: who she was, why Lynn had never heard of her either, and the shock of discovering that among all of Marilyn's photographers, there wer...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Kate Whouley, author of The Maestro and Her Protégé, listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fr_fJ9t9G_o Nadia Boulanger, the most influential music teacher of the 20th century: who she was, why she matters, and how Kate first encountered her by way of her terrifying theory professor when she was a music student. Inventi...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Elisabeth Storrs, author of Fables and Lies , listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lCJfOypSQr4 The genesis of Fables and Lies : how a 30-year obsession with Priam's Gold and its mysterious disappearance after the Russians took it from Berlin led Elisabeth to create Freya, a young German woman working at the...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Caroline Woods, author of The Lunar Housewife, listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0nJmxXJcrQQ How Caroline discovered the CIA's secret program to fund and shape American literary culture during the Cold War, including its involvement in the founding of the Paris Review, and why she saw a novel in it. The...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Aimie K. Runyan, author of Mademoiselle Eiffel , listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_JcFmRQ4PcQ Why Aimie chose to write about Claire Eiffel rather than her more famous father, and the surprising role Claire played in running Gustave's household, social life, and business from the age of 14. The...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Art In Fiction Podcast, I'm doing something a little different: a solo episode about my new novel, The Choir , listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction.  View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SHb4USfSeE0 The family mystery at the heart of the novel: a great-great-grandmother who left her husband with six children in Victorian England and went on t...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Maryka Biaggio, author of Marjory and Me , listed in the Spiritualism category on Art In Fiction.  View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xK3aC6WBKr8 How Maryka discovered the true story of Margery Crandon, Boston socialite, celebrated medium, and the woman who took on Harry Houdini. The bold structural choice to narrate Margery's story through Walter,...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Herb Williams-Dalgart, author of Jingle Boys listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/azuaBStafaI Herb's personal origin story behind the novel: named after his grandfather who died in WWII, a man he never knew, which sparked a lifelong fascination with the era. How the role of music in wartime, harmony vers...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Chanel Cleeton, author of T he Lost Story of Eva Fuentes listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FN2q5JDLLEk Chanel's inspiration for the novel as her love letter to books and a celebration of the power of reading. Her passion for exploring more about Cuban American history and her own heritage as the...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Barbara Stark-Nemon, author of Isabela's Way listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-0wUhdrD00 How Barbara got the idea to write a novel set in the 17th century during the Inquistion: inspiration resulting from a cycling trip in Portugal. History of the Inquistion in Europe and how it was not forma...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Stephanie Cowell, author of The Man in the Stone Cottage: Novel of the Brontë Sisters   listed in the LIterature category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eYPoIKk9pOk Why Stephanie decided to write about the Brontë sisters in The Man in the Stone Cottage ; how she first read and loved  Wuthering Heights when she was a young girl. How...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Tea Gudek Šnajdar, author of Following Van Gogh listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. Here's a summary of the podcast: Inspiration for the novel that combines travel writing with a thriller. Fascination with the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and how his color palette changed as he moved from the Netherlands to Paris to Arles. The "what i...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Louis Bayard, author of The Wildes listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ukomPza-Oh0 Why write about Oscar Wilde through the lens of his family life? Inspiration for the novel from the memoir of Vivian Wilde, the youngest of the two sons of Oscar and Constance. Challenges of writing about one of the great...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Alka Joshi, author of four novels listed on Art In Fiction including Six Days in Bombay listed in the Visual Arts category. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eYPoIKk9pOk Inspiration for Six Days of Bombay and its relationship to the real life story of artist Amrita Sher-Gil. Background on Amrita Sher-Gil and how her personality and sometimes shocking ac...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Christine Ma-Kellams, author of The Band listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZopqRgR9xG4 Inspiration for  The Band and its relationship to pop music, K-Pop, and popular culture. Motivation for writing  The Band  as a commentary on what may be happening behind the scenes of a successful K-Pop boy band. The no...

Send us Fan Mail I'm speaking today with M. A. McLaughlin, author of The Lost Dresses of Italy listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rDe_rXrLC2k Overview of the story of The Lost Dresses of Italy as a dual time novel taking place in 1947 and 1864 and inspired by a three-week trip to Italy taken by Victorian poet Christina Rossetti P...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Ana Veciana-Suarez, author of Dulcinea listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BKX2HsA43_c Overview of the story of Dulcinea as being about a wealthy Barcelona woman called Dolça who is cast as the fictional muse of Miguel Cervantes Use of the dual-timeline narrative in the novel Ana's family back...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm chatting with Mark Baker, author of The Needle of Avocation listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BKX2HsA43_c The genesis of The Needle of Avocation as the third book in the Cuthbert series Creation of the "It" girl of the 8th century, the heroine of the first two novels in the series, led to t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm chatting with Crystal King, author of In the Garden of Monsters listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WElAb9vxuAI The genesis of In the Garden of Monsters and the decision to write a novel that incorporated elements of fantasy and the Gothic Inspired by the sacro bosco (sacred wood) at Bomarzo in Italy an...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with novelist Alex Connor, author of several art thrillers listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, including Rembrandt's Secret , The Caravaggio Conspiracy , and The Incubus Tapes . View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fbi3aA7gPl8 Why Alexandra has chosen to center her novels, mostly art thrillers, around art. Seeing Caravaggio's Su...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm chatting with Judith Lindbergh, author of Akmaral listed in the Other category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gGdvLEpGrZw The genesis of Akmaral from two points of reference in Judith's personal life: her obsession with archeology and her young son's obsession with pretending to be a knight in shining armor How Ak...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Alyson Richman, author of 9 novels listed on Art In Fiction, including The Time Keepers listed in the Other category and The Thread Collectors listed in the Textile Arts category. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vrYzy7mORwc Why Alyson likes to write novels inspired by the arts and the role the arts have played in her life How her novels answer qu...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Ferdia Lennon, author of Glorious Exploits , a wonderful debut novel listed in the Theater category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3ZFFQ4rg4DU Genesis for Glorious Exploits Based on true events that occurred in Syracuse, Sicily during the Peloponnesian war. The theme of friendship in Glorious Exploits Theater and research of a...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Laura  Morelli, author of six novels listed on Art In FIction: The Gondola Maker in the Other category, and five novels in the Visual Arts category: The Painter's Apprentice , The Giant , The Night Portrait , The Stolen Lady , and The Last Masterpiece, which we will discuss in this episode. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K1Zru2kCdtQ Genesis...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with Laurie Lico Albanese, author of three novels listed on Art In FIction, including Hester listed in the Textile Arts category and Stolen Beauty and The Miracles of Prato (co-written with Laura Morowitz) listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vUuYVDmYdDQ Inspiration for Hester Hawthorne's The Scarl...