Art In Fiction

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Louise Fein, author of Book of Forbidden Words, listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XGECvUgXmO0 Premise for the novel: in Tudor England and 1550s Paris, a coded manuscript holds ideas dangerous enough to get its author burned at the stake, and in 1952, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker stuck in McCarthy-era suburbia is handed that manuscript and asked to crack it.Why Louise went looking for a histor...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is J.C. Corry, author of The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy, listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ATuNBbQ2na8 Premise for the novel: a genesis story for Geoffrey Chaucer. In his mid-twenties, he's drunk, unpublished, and desperate to win Pippa, and sent to Spain under cover of the wine trade while the Castilian Civil War rages.Was Chaucer really a spy? How researchers Crow and Olsen's Chauce...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Bonnie Blaylock, author of The Water Women, listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oQagNFbwEzI Premise for the novel: three generations of Sardinian women guard the ancient craft of byssus weaving, golden "sea silk" harvested from a mollusk, until a 1942 wartime secret changes what gets passed down the family line.Byssus 101, or the beard of the world's largest mollusk: how a single photo of the Pinna nobili...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Jillian Forsberg, author of The Porcelain Menagerie, listed in the Decorative Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-c1T9q46_Ys Premise for the novel: how a king's obsession with "white gold" porcelain drives two intertwined stories set decades apart. Fatima, a stolen Turkish handmaiden turned royal mistress, is put in charge of Augustus the Strong's exotic menagerie, and Johann Kändler, is the sculptor commissioned to capture t...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Kerry Chaput, author of The Secret Courtesan, listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fkX-QqvmnQg Premise for the novel: how a marble Venetian sculpture, surfacing after 400 years and credited to a male artist, sends Mia, a modern-day arts authenticator looking for the woman she is sure had carved it.Kerry found documented women painters of the Renaissance and Baroque, but no large-scale women sculptors, and d...