Samantha Silva

Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. Over her career, she’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema.

Sometime This Century is her third novel, following Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mr. Dickens and His Carol, her debut.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Silva's reply:

I’m having a glorious time listening to the audiobook of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End (read by Steven Crossley). When my brain hits a wall with the writing (I get up in the wee hours and work till mid-day), I’m hungry to read, but find being read to an absolute tonic, letting a book wash over me and rewire my brain. And because I have a terrible memory, and had forgotten so much of the story, this is like reading it for the first time. Forster is an absolute genius with language. I’d forgotten how utterly funny he can be, how he can send up big and difficult subjects (class, capitalism, imperialism), by making fun of his characters, drawn so distinctly. There’s this brilliant narrative voice (Forster as omniscient) who sees it all as this great human comedy. But then there comes a turn that bares his soft-heartedness about the world he creates and the vivid, flawed, sometimes marvelous people who live in it.

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