Writing
On Fiction, Artificial Intelligence & New England
Notes from the desk: how technology finds its way into contemporary novels without turning them into science fiction, why the White Mountains keep pulling stories north, and what I'm reading while revising.
Reading Guides
Literary Novels About Artificial Intelligence
Ten upmarket and literary novels where artificial intelligence is a way into character rather than a genre premise.
Fiction Set in New Hampshire & the White Mountains
A reading guide to novels rooted in northern New England — small towns, hard winters, and the pull of the mountains.
Book-Club Fiction About Technology
Contemporary book-club novels about how screens, data, and algorithms reshape families, marriages, and friendships.
THE LIGHT BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN is an upmarket book-club novel set in New Hampshire's White Mountains.