Victoria Lautman with Richard Russo, photo courtesy Rachelle Bowden.

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Sena Jeter Naslund

/ November 19, 2006 / Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antionette

Award-winning author Sena Naslund talks about her fictionalized account of Marie Antoinette’s fascinating, if doomed, rise to power from ignorant Austrian teenager to the Queen of France. Conceived as an imaginative diary, Abundance incorporates facts, historical research, and actual letters from Antoinette’s life as she navigated the elaborate etiquette, political intrigue, and personal scandals at the court of Louis XVI. Naslund’s earlier novel, Ahab’s Wife, created a character from a single reference in Melville’s Moby Dick, and became an international best-seller.

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Victoria Lautman Interviews...

Sherman Alexie Monica Ali Martin Amis Alaa Al Aswany Andrea Barrett Russell Banks Eric Bogosian Augusten Burroughs Peter Carey Susanna Clarke Michael Cunningham Edwidge Danticat Junot Diaz Bret Easton Ellis Nathan Englander Louise Erdrich

Jonathan Safran Foer Mary Gaitskill Julia Glass Adam Gopnik Aleksandar Hemon Alice Hoffman Margo Jefferson Ha Jin Edward P. Jones Elizabeth Kostova Anne Lamott Michael Lowenthal Frank McCourt Jay McInerney James McManus Sue Miller

Anchee Min Sena Jeter Naslund Audrey Niffenegger Susan Orlean Ann Packer Arthur Phillips Richard Price Francine Prose Richard Russo Lionel Shriver Jane Smiley Elizabeth Strout Manil Suri Wells Tower Barry Unsworth David Wroblewski

 

 

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