Amor Towles, the novelist behind the international bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow," returns with "Table for Two" (Viking), an irresistible collection of short stories and a novella flavored with ...

When Amor Towles was in Louisiana for the New Orleans Book Festival March 15-16, he took an hour to chat with Jan Risher. His books, "Rules of Civility," "A Gentleman in Moscow," "The Lincoln Highway, ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

For the second quarter Louisiana Inspired book club, we have chosen "Rules of Civility" by best-selling author Amor Towles. The selected books for the book club represent a combination of fiction and ...

There are plenty of reasons to write fiction: to inform, to thrill, to move, to challenge, to inspire. All of those come into play in Amor Towles’ work, but it seems to me that his main impulse is a ...

WATSONVILLE — Millions of books are published each year, so the likelihood of making The New York Times Best Seller list — widely considered the definitive ranking of the highest selling works of ...

Seventy years later, Lolita remains refreshing, funny, sharp, and shocking. It is worth reading just for the humbling pleasure of witnessing what a late adopter of English can achieve with our ...

At the very end of Amor Towles' first novel, "Rules Of Civility," his character Evelyn Ross is on a train. The year is 1938. She is pulling out of New York City, having just completely blown up her ...

Best-selling novelist Amor Towles is having a moment. His novel “A Gentleman in Moscow” — about a Russian count sentenced to live out his life inside an elegant Moscow hotel — has been adapted into an ...

I have become an Amor Towles fan. Last April I authored a review of Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow. Occasionally, I have to sue crooked fiduciaries who have breached their duties to my clients. In ...