Virginia Book Festival authors share thoughts

Jann Malone’s Richmond TImes Dispatch Column for this week is interesting. She asks five of the authors speaking at “Bring-Your-Book-Club Night” at next month’s Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville their thoughts about what makes a book a good choice for discussion.

Besides asking them what kind of book leads to the best discussions, she wanted to know what it is about their most recent books that make them good book group choices. And, since they know their work better than anyone else, she asked for questions that would make the discussion soar.

Here’s what they said.

“There are 70 million NASCAR fans in this country. Chances are you are going to have to relate to at least one of them.”