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The ants scrambled for safety, swimming for their lives. So I got a glass of water and I created a flood. Karen Joy Fowler, author of the bestselling 'The Jane Austen Book Club' and other books, joins us now from London. I’d run out of political plots, or I was bored with them. I think I may have been reading a biography of Mary Queen of Scots at the time….Īnyway, there was this short news day for the ants. I imagine political upheavals, plots and coups d e’tat, and I reported on them. Even a stamp would have looked like a basketball court. Anyway, imagine how small an ant paper would really be.


Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, Lowell, Rosemary and her unusual sister Fern. The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one. “I made tiny newspapers of ant events, stamp-sized papers at first, then a bit bigger, too big for ants, it distressed me, but I couldn’t fit the stories otherwise and I wanted real stories, not just lines of something that looked like writing. KAREN JOY FOWLER Order your copy from your retailer of choice here.
