In an interesting analysis, The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf reviews Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons in the context of discussing the historical and literary evolution of angels as both agents of God and literary devices:

Recently there has been a considerable fascination with angels in popular culture. Sometimes reverent, sometimes ( Read more... )

Another week, another interview! :-)

This time I am interviewed by Kelly Yanke Deltener over at The Examiner.

I talk about Abbott and Costello, monsters as literary metaphor, choosing which monsters to write about, the art of the mash-up, publishing, about Jane Austen, and what's ahead...

In addition, there is also a nice review of Mansfield ( Read more... )

Reviewer Paul Charles Smith gives his reasons for reviewing older books, and his various review title selections in general:

Out with the Old and in with the New?

New reviewer Paul Charles Smith over at Empty Your Heart Of Its Mortal Dream reviews Mansfield Park and Mummies, saying many kind things, in particular, this:

"The prose is seamless, and if it wasn't for the references to Egyptology or the supernatural it would be almost impossible to tell where Austen ends and Nazarian begins..."

which I take as ( Read more... )

So... you guys know that Mansfield Park and Mummies is officially dedicated to Janet Chui marrael, right?

Well, not only did she post a fabulous review of it, with a graphic she made that absolutely must be seen... but she also very kindly shared the picture of what the dedication page looks like inside, in that one very special personalized copy that I ( Read more... )

Check out this hilarious review of the Twilight Saga's NEW MOON opening night theatrical experience. Holy shit!

This week, erzebet and the good folks at Cabinet des Fées recently posted the September 1 issue, and apparently I am a featured author of sorts -- Tanya B. Avakian reviewed three of my books, in truly fascinating ethnic contexts that, to be honest, no other reviewer has ever done, because they simply don't know enough about Armenia, or for that matter ( Read more... )

Charles Tan (charlesatan) reviews at Bibliophile Stalker my newly reissued, revised, and expanded collection Salt of the Air with an introduction by Gene Wolfe:

"Nazarian has a Romantic style that occupies a niche missing from more contemporary writers..."

Read the rest of the review...


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Meant to post this earlier, but Bibliophile Stalker has recently reviewed my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose:

"I've read some of Nazarian's previous longer fiction but I have to say this is my favorite Nazarian book. Dreams of the Compass Rose combines many disparate elements into a unified whole. While her writing style isn't particularly new, ( Read more... )

In another reaffirmation that the Brits seem to really like my writing, here's a great review by David Hebblethwaite of my quirky novella in the online magazine The Zone. (David did a shorter review on his blog previously ( Read more... )