Suisman’s debut is by turns hilarious and poignant as a mayoral election, a fight to prevent the construction of a tire factory, and efforts to save a charismatic turkey from becoming Thanksgiving dinner coincide. Arnold Falls, N.Y., is a small town rich in eccentric...
When I began writing Arnold Falls, I knew music would play a big part in the life of the town and so in the book.As it turns out, having put together a playlist of the songs name-checked in the book, there are 45 of them, from all over the map: Puccini, Florence + The...
I’d been writing about New York City for ages, when I found myself, a couple of months after the 2016 election, imagining a little town. Even though I was spending my time in a small town in the Hudson Valley, I was thinking about somewhere else, a place that—though I...
