Featured Interviews

CRIME READS
Fellow Texas writer Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Cander about her new novel and the 1917 short story that forms its basis…read more

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
Houston Matters’s Michael Hagerty interviews Chris Cander about what it meant to set her novel A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR in her own neighborhood…read more

THE BUZZ MAGAZINES
It sounds like a bit of a stretch: A competitive bodybuilder with a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo becomes a novelist. But if you know longtime West U resident Chris Cander, you know it makes perfect sense…read more

BOOKWORM
The Weight of a Piano is “the most abstractly emotional novel I’ve ever read.”…read more

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
“Like most storytellers, Cander keeps her ears open for tales and details, the little single-cell narrative organisms that can be nurtured into a book.”…read more

HOUSTON MATTERS
“Writer Chris Cander addresses the emotional baggage that inanimate objects can have in her latest novel, The Weight of a Piano.”…read more

THE F***ING SHAKESPEARE PODCAST
“We discuss witnessing magic in the every day, and how learning to really notice is the only rule she knows how to follow in crafting stories. We talk about adverbs and bull riding and the happy ending to her publishing journey that lends hope and the admonition to never give up.”…read more

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Chris Cander’s 11 Stories received a starred review from PW Select, with our reviewer saying: “Her conclusion provides grounds for belief in the possibility of redemption; her sensitivity ensures that this novel will appeal to anyone with a story to tell, a group that includes us all.”…read more

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
“Chris Cander has led several different lives. She worked as a firefighter, which led her to take up body building, which led to an appearance on the 90s TV show Baywatch. As she tells Michael Hagerty, all those previous roles–and her current one, as a writer–have something in common.”…read more

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE
“I’m pretty sure you’re the first author I’ve ever interviewed who’s a member of MENSA as well as a former bodybuilder.”…read more

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