The winner of this year's Booker Prize is a novel called "Orbital." Samantha Harvey joins a long tradition of authors whose books take place in a single day, only in this day there are 16 sunrises and ...
Before Tuesday night, the author Samantha Harvey had got used to thinking of herself as a bit of an underdog. “It’s not out of self-pity, but I definitely saw myself as being on the periphery,” she ...
Author Samantha Harvey tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that she was fascinated by the quotes and insight of astronauts as a child. Her new novel, Orbital, turns that interest into a careful contemplation of ...
In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...
Nonfiction is for boring people. Romance is for girls. And literary fiction? It’s for snobs. At least that’s what a lot of people seem to think. I, on the other hand, like to think of it as literature ...