“In the acknowledgments to your book, you call Riverhead’s Geoffrey Kloske an “excellent and, yes, feminist publisher.” What did you mean by that?

VIDA had done a series about the number of women writers published at the various companies, and Riverhead came out very well. And it’s not just that. Looking at what they’ve published over the years, he publishes important work by excellent women and really supports it. He cares.”

From Meg Wolitzer’s Atlantic Wire interview, to read the whole interview, click here.

rachelfershleiser: Meg Wolitzer is flawless. Her conversation with Jami last night was hilarious, inspiring, and infuriating in all the right ways. (“Tell me again how you totally care about women’s stories cause you read Joan Didion….”) Also discussed: collaborating with musicians, women running through fields of wheat, Bookscan numbers, talent, Long Island, the first 80 pages, Anthony Weiner. What I’m saying is, buy The Interestings. And go see this amazing writer anytime and anywhere she speaks. WOW what an endorsement! 
bookavore: BLIND ITEM REVEALED: The book I was so engrossed in yesterday and which caused me to eat an entire bag of chips without realizing was The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer. There are a lot of things to say about this book, and smarter people than me are going to say them, so I will just note that I loved it and very highly recommend it to pretty much everybody I know. Throw this on the feminist book club pile as well. God, that’s a lot of feminist books in a row. I’m going to go root through Martin Amis’s backlist and cleanse my palate. We think “so good I accidentally ate a whole bag of chips” is pretty selling endorsement! 

“A victory … The Interestings secures Wolitzer’s place among the best novelists of her generation… . She’s every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ones. This isn’t women’s fiction. It’s everyone’s.”—Entertainment Weekly (A)

We just got in gorgeous early copies of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings. Publicity Director and instagram artist Jynne Martin created this stunning photo for us on the @riverheadbooks instagram!
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Book Recommendation: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

roxanegay:

The best way to describe Meg Wolitzer’s forthcoming, intimate epic of a novel, The Interestings, might be this:

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Or it might be that one ballet move where the dancer twirls and returns to the same point, over and over, like at 9:30 in the amazing final dance of the amazing Center Stage.

Can’t decide what we love more: “intimate epic” or a reference to Center Stage! 

The Millions names three Riverhead books to its most anticipated books of 2013 list!

Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings, Ramona Ausubel’s A Guide to Being Born, are all on The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2013 Preview list. Check ‘em out!

Like Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Meg Wolitzer gives us the full picture here, charting her characters’ lives from the self-dramatizing of adolescence, through the resignation of middle age, to the attainment of a wisdom that holds all the intensities of life in a single, sustained chord, much like this book itself. The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level.