"He wanted to be honest," writes Susan Minot in her novella "Rapture," "but no one wants complete honesty if it's going to rip open your heart." Searing honesty and broken hearts are emblematic of ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Don't Be a Stranger" by Susan Minot. (Knopf via AP) ‘Enough is enough’: Europe’s leaders are piling pressure on the EU to release $200 billion of frozen ...

When Susan Minot writes a new book, readers take note. The award-winning author, who summers in Maine, has been on the scene for several decades, her career spanning multiple media. She’s known ...

In the old days, when newspapers had the resources to produce genuine book sections and farm out critiques to reviewers based on their expertise and interests, I'm sure I would have been far down the ...

“Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” by Susan Minot; Knopf, New York, 2020; 176 pages, hardcover, $25. The spare, journalistic prose style in fiction was more or less invented by Ernest Hemingway in ...

Knopf, 156 pages, $25. Hazy, hot, and humid. Yes, that‘s the condition of the weather these days. But it could also describe Susan Minot’s newest book, “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories.” At only ...

From the beginning, the red flags are waving. Ivy Cooper, the recently divorced protagonist of Susan Minot’s emotionally raw novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” lives in New York with her 9-year-old son, ...

There are a lot of reasons not to write, said Susan Minot, who lists them in the title story of her new collection, “Why I Don’t Write: And Other Stories.” Some are logistical (kids, jobs), others ...

From the very first page of Susan Minot’s latest novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, has sex on her mind. The scene opens with her in the bath, thinking about ...

From the very first page of Susan Minot’s latest novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, has sex on her mind. The scene opens with her in the bath, thinking about ...