McMillan is a board member at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in Lenox, and “The Necklace” was completed during a Writer-in-Residence stay there. A six-month stay in India and McMillan’s past experience practicing law also inform the book, a tale that alternates between women of two generations - a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer who inherits a spectacular Indian necklace, along with an even more valuable secret. He is the co-curator of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City.Ĭlaire McMillan’s new novel, “The Necklace,” was inspired in part by family heirlooms: McMillan’s husband’s great-grandmother’s scrapbook of Roaring Twenties house parties and volumes of a great-uncle’s letters and journals chronicling his 1907 trip around the world. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his fiction has also appeared in The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, Essays & Fictions, The New Plains Review, Verdad Magazine, BlazeVOX, and others. His pilot Join Us was a finalist in Script Pipeline’s TV Writing Competition. His debut novel “Slow Down” is a neo-noir thriller. The French translation will be published by Editions Hugo, and in Slovak by Albatros Media. Martin’s Press and has been acquired by Macmillan Entertainment with the film in development.

Lee Matthew Goldberg’s novel “The Mentor” is out from Thomas Dunne Books/St. The readings will be followed by book-signing and a DJ set by Andy French. (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Authors Lee Matthew Goldberg, Claire McMillan, and Laurie Stone will read from their works at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Saturday, August 12, at 7pm, as part of Volume, the free monthly reading and music series every second Saturday of the month.

The necklace by claire mcmillan