News

News and Events for Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak

Listen to my interview on National Public Radio's talk show Houston Matters: "From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One Family's Memories of the Atomic Age"

Read an essay on the website of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: "Nuclear Family: A Child of the Manhattan Project Contemplates Its 80th Anniversary"

Read an interview with Leslie about Fission in the blog of History Through Fiction:

Emotional Fission: A Psychologist-Turned-Novelist on Love, Duty, and the Atomic Age

Read a “Historically Speaking” column about Fission in The Oak Ridger Newspaper: "Her Parents' Lives Are at the Root of Fission: A Novel of Oak Ridge"

Watch a Hidden History podcast about Fission with Oak Ridge historians, D. Ray Smith and Keith McDaniel (recorded 1/8/25): https://youtu.be/SEX4F8zJziU

Watch a podcast interview with Leslie about Fission on Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, #14

More Manhattan Project Novels and a New Nonfiction Book Lately I feel pulled between setting up publicity ops for my novel that will be...

lschover

Aug 165 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, #12

My Favorite Manhattan Project Novels As I wrote my novel, Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , I began to search for other novels set...

lschover

Aug 163 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, #10

Sex in the Senior City Leslie author photo 1984 Leslie author photo 2025 In 1984, I wrote a book titled Prime Time: Sex for Men over...

lschover

Jul 84 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER #8

The Guilt Trope in Manhattan Project Novels Guilty Scientist The movie Oppenheimer, as well as almost every novel written about the...

lschover

Jun 35 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 7

Would you read a novel if you thought the heroine might die at the end? Fantasy Black Hole Hi, my valued Substack followers and...

lschover

May 243 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 5

Anatomy of a Scene: Fleshing Out the Skeleton of a Story The Piano Store One of my mother’s Oak Ridge stories was, as best I can recall,...

lschover

May 249 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 6

My Family in Summer, 1943 A Video Time Machine: Two Sisters, Two Family Eras Why do some siblings turn out to be so...

lschover

May 63 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 4

Hydrogen bomb (<a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos/hydrogen-bomb">Hydrogen Bomb Stock photos by Vecteezy</a>) Why I Would Want...

lschover

Apr 203 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 3

My Mother's Music As I began to write my novel Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak , based in part on my parents’...

lschover

Apr 102 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 2

Radiation safety was a relatively new field during the Manhattan Project when my father was a twenty-three year old electronics...

lschover

Apr 83 min read

NUCLEAR FICTION NEWSLETTER, Issue 1. April, 2026

I want to introduce myself to strangers and reintroduce myself to friends as an author of fiction. After a long career as a clinical...

lschover

Mar 304 min read