PRESS & MEDIA
INTERVIEWS
The Book Girl Club: The Tell by Hester Kaplan: A Haunting Novel of Love and Marriage
The Tell by Hester Kaplan: A Haunting Novel of Love and Marriage
Hester Kaplan is an award-winning writer whose short story
collection The Edge of Marriage won
the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Caroline Leavittville: Hester Kaplan talks about The Tell
Hester Kaplan talks about The Tell, how we know the ones we love, social media and so much more
A conversation with Hester Kaplan
A conversation with Hester Kaplan Gambling plays an important part in straining your characters Mira and Owen’s marriage. Why did you choose this particular vice for your novel?
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
Hester Kaplan is the author of the new short story collectionUnravished. She also has writtenanother story collection, The Edge of Marriage, and two novels, The Tell and Kinship Theory. She teaches at Lesley University, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Femamom: An Interview With Hester Kaplan, The Author Of “The Tell”
Hester Kaplan writes about marriage. Whether it’s stories about couples trying to figure out where they stand in a relationship with her award-winning The Edge of Marriage or most recently, with her new novel,The Tell, she writes about nuances that exist under the surface–the kind that make you question your own relationship after you’ve read her work.
REVIEWS
The Tell, Hester Kaplan ~ Book review
In The Tell Hester Kaplan has woven a story of intrigue, connections, relationships, memories, history and more.
THE PROVIDENCE PHOENIX: Hester Kaplan’s The Tell is captivating
In her first novel in 10 years, The Tell (Harper Perennial), Providence writer and educator Hester Kaplan tackles the familiar territory of marriage and relationships she has previously explored in the award-winning short story collection, The Edge of Marriage (1999), and her novel, Kinship Theory (2001).
STAR TRIBUNE BOOK REVIEW: “The Tell,” by Hester Kaplan
An aging but charismatic actor moves in next door to a couple whose marriage is already in trouble.
Hester Kaplan’s novel “The Tell” occupies that peculiar literary middle earth where everything is about relationships enacted against a history that has shaped the characters to respond in significant ways to problems put in their paths.
Stephanie Vandrick Reads: “Unravished”
Because I was both shaken by and drawn into the worlds of the two books by Hester Kaplan that I read earlier, I was happy to hear of and read her new book, “Unravished: Stories” (Ig, 2014).
THE BROOKLYN PAPER: Background stories
Background stories: F’Greene-published short story collection digs up the past
Regrets? They’ve had a few — and it makes for great reading!
LIBRARY JOURNAL: Top Indie Fiction
Author of two novels and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Kaplan delivers an exceptional collection with beautifully rendered stories for and about grown-ups.
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
Hester Kaplan is the author of the new short story collectionUnravished. She also has writtenanother story collection, The Edge of Marriage, and two novels, The Tell and Kinship Theory. She teaches at Lesley University, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.