NEWS & MEDIA

The Informer: Author Interview
Craig Nova talks about his twelfth novel, The Informer, which will be published in March 2010. Set in Berlin in 1930, this visionary thriller, tells a story of a time and a place like our own.

Booklist: The Informer
“Nova develops suspense nicely, too…an entrancing mood piece.”

Publishers Weekly: New Fiction Book Reviews (12/14/2009)
Set in 1930 Berlin, this fine novel from Nova (The Good Son) smoothly combines crime and politics. Armina Treffen, who works for the serious crimes section of the Berlin police department and has a successful track record catching serial killers, goes after a fiend who strangles his female victims and leaves their abused bodies in the Tiergarten. Treffen's investigation is interwoven with the story of the title character, Gaelle, a 22-year-old prostitute with an alluring facial scar from a car accident, and her 16-year-old pimp, Felix. A mysterious gentleman, Bruno Hauptmann (not to be confused with the man executed for kidnapping the Lindbergh baby), recruits Gaelle to pass along any information about what, say, the Communists are up to that she might pick up on the job. While those expecting a conventional police procedural may be disappointed, the author's evocative portrait of Weimar Germany and sophisticated portrayals of the lead characters will satisfy most readers. (Feb.)

Craig Nova's Secrets to a Happy Marriage
A letter Craig Nova wrote to his daughter on her wedding day is featured on A Cup of Jo, the design and fashion blog of magazine writer Joanna Goddard.

Classics Corner: Incandescence by Craig Nova
Long out of print (it was published in the US in 1980), Incandescence fits perfectly into Capuchin Classics's mission to "revive great works of fiction that have been unjustly forgotten or neglected". Championed by William Boyd, writer of the book's foreword, it is a gritty, glittering star in the publisher's line-up.

You shall know us by our velocity
In the propulsive Cruisers, two Vermont men move inexorably toward a confrontation.

The World According to Nova
Novelist Craig Nova talks with David Bowman about Camus, New England exotica, and what it's like to be a writers' writer.

Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt
Cruisers (Shaye Areheart Books) The dark precisions of Craig Nova's Cruisers provoke anxiety. Tension mounts; the book feels like a thriller, but one of a very high order. Nova discusses his poetic technique and how it deflects the reader from solving a mystery to respecting life's mysteries.

New Hampshire Public Radio: Cruisers
Many New Hampshire residents remember the murders that took place in Colebrook a few years back. For novelist Craig Nova, it sparked an interest in the thoughts, fears, and feelings of the people involved. His new book, Cruisers, is a story of two men on opposite sides of the law; a state trooper and a man about to commit a violent crime.

Entertainment Weekly: Craig Nova's Cruisers
Ben Spier rates Cruisers an "A" and says "Nova displays an uncanny flair for evoking his characters' innermost fears and desires through sensuous details."

Best of Fiction: Cruisers
Tom Nolan writes in January Magazine, "Craig Nova writes a poet's prose, rich in symbols and glittering with imagery... Cruisers is a wonderful, riveting, heartbreaking book."

All Things Considered
Alan Cheuse reviews a new novel by Craig Nova called Wetware. It is the story of a biotech engineer and his creation of extraordinary androids.

Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt
The Book of Dreams. Nova discusses the tough guy and ---noir--- novel as points of origin for his dark investigation of the California dream.

All Things Considered
Writer Craig Nova's latest novel, The Universal Donor, takes the reader into the streets and hospitals of Los Angeles at the time of the South Central riots...and tells a story about love in an unlikely setting.

Don Swain: Wired for Books
Craig Nova reminisces with Don Swaim in this 1992 interview growing up in Hollywood California, attending Hollywood High School, and listening to his mother tell him stories of New England. Nova discusses his novel Trombone as well as some of his first books Turkey Hash, Incandescence, The Good Son, The Geek and the influence his children have had on his writing.

Desire, Ambition and Father
John Irving, author of The World According to Garp , reviews Craig Nova's 1982 novel The Good Son.