This month’s State of the Thing, LibraryThing’s monthly newsletter of features, author interviews and various forms of bookish delight, should have made its way to your inbox by now. You can also read it online.

For our author interviews this month, I talked to former prosecutor Marcia Clark about her debut novel Guilt by Association, recently published by Muholland Books. Read the full interview.

I also chatted with Jessica Speart about her new book Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler (published by W.W. Norton and up for requests in this month’s Early Reviewers batch). Speart talks about the lengthy research process the book required, and about how the smuggler tried to make her his “front man” in a butterfly transaction. Read the full interview.

And we have a great third interview this month: Lisa Carey talked to Susan Conley (pictured at left) about her new memoir The Foremost Good Fortune, published by Knopf in February. Conley discusses her writing style, offers some sound advice for memoirists, and gives us a sneak peek inside her forthcoming novel.

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