From Shelf Awareness May 8, 2026 Reading with… Laurie Frankel Laurie Frankel is the author of six novels, including Enormous Wings (Holt, May 5, 2026), a fresh, funny, timely story of bodily autonomy, women’s rights, elder rights, reproductive rights, family, love, grandmas, paparazzi, sex, profane priests, and hamsters. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington …
“Word got back to Alfred A. Knopf about how much I loved Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (still my favorite book of the year so far), and . . . Phinney Books had the honor of a visit from Mr. Flanagan before his reading . . . at Elliott Bay Books (on the same day …
I’ve been doing a lot of book touring recently, which means that I often live out of one small carry-on suitcase for weeks and even months at a time. In many ways I quite like this. I can step away from the clutter that is my real life and pretend that I am a monkish …
