What I'm Reading and Working On Now: Medieval Shipwrecks, Edwardian Suburbs, and 42nd Street

My next book, Women’s Hotel, is presently being edited, which means there’s very little for me to do in the meantime besides start a lot of first chapters of all the other novels I’d like to write next, now that I’ve figured out how to do it. I’ve included snippets of my Nora Ephron pastiche-in-progress and book about Salieri-type brother monks of spiri…