An Interview with Virginia Pye
“For the longest time, I wrote without being published, so I know all about that”: Virginia Pye chats with Janyce Stefan-Cole about her new collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, out this week from Press 53.
“For the longest time, I wrote without being published, so I know all about that”: Virginia Pye chats with Janyce Stefan-Cole about her new collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, out this week from Press 53.
Virginia Pye’s debut novel, River of Dust (Unbridled Books), was an Indie Next Pick for May 2013. Carolyn See, in the Washington Post, called it “mysterious, exotic, creepy—everything ignorant foreigners used to believe China to be.” And in his blurb, Robert Olen Butler hailed the novel as “a major book by a splendid writer.” River of Dust is a gripping historical adventure, set in rural China in 1910, which opens with a parent’s worst fear: kidnapping. The book is also a lyrical psychological and spiritual meditation, as the search for the American missionary couple’s stolen son becomes nothing less than a search for “the […]
