When someone asks me to recommend a D.C. author, I start by pointing them toward Chet’la Sebree and Susan Coll. Why? Because these two writers offer us the perfect snapshot of the beautiful complexity ...

This attempt by Coll (Acceptance) to satirize life in the affluent suburbs of Washington, D.C., only partially succeeds. The narrative works best when the point of view belongs to Lars Jorgenson, a ...

When dark clouds roll in, do you stay and weather the storm, or do you run toward blue skies? For Cassie Klein, the main character in Susan Coll’s new novel, “Real Life and Other Fictions,” the answer ...

Susan Coll’s eighth novel, “The Literati,” is a funny, sometimes zany comedy of errors with a splash of rom-com — heavy on the com and light on the rom, which is refreshing. While the main character, ...

In 2011 Susan Coll routinely walked Reno Road. At the time, her marriage of almost 30 years was breaking up. And she was reading a lot of memoirs by women who’d gone through their own major life ...

Susan Coll works at Politics & Prose Bookstore and would like to emphasize that this essay should be shelved under fiction. Her novel, "The Stager," will be published in July. ‘Good morning, how can I ...

In “The Stager,” Susan Coll writes about her home town with an insider’s hilarious, mocking affection. And since she happens to live in Washington, the amusement will be especially delicious to local ...

The Great Falls Speaker’s Series (GFFS) kicked off last month to a capacity crowd at the Great Falls Library by welcoming its first guest speaker, New York Times best-selling author Pamela Palmer. The ...

Ella Kennedy’s refrain is “I’m not a Marxist.” Never mind that Ella, the heroine of Susan Coll’s debut novel, karlmarx.com, spent her college years “unfurl[ing] giant banners of Karl Marx at college ...

Skillfully executed but narrowly conceived, Susan Coll's third novel is a winning social comedy about the overwrought college admissions struggles of privileged teenagers and their parents. Bumped ...