William Morrow preempts a debut novel by Liz Stein, Michelle Tea sells a memoir about the reproductive industrial complex to Dey Street, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
"Of Women and Salt," tracking generations of Latinas, comes out of Gabriela Garcia's family story, life experience and advocacy for migrants. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-23 19:20:30 UTC ]
Writer Jeannine Mjoseth was looking for adventure when she turned to professional wrestling. She got plenty of that. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has landed a story collection and debut novel from Niamh Mulvey, writer of publishing newsletter “In the Read” and a former Quercus commissioning editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 22:15:18 UTC ]
The debut novel of Vintage editor Lily Lindon has gone to Head of Zeus in a four-way auction, as part of a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 09:59:43 UTC ]
Megan Nolan's "Acts of Desperation," about a woman in thrall to an older man, stands out from similar tales with an uncannily self-aware narrator. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-03 15:00:19 UTC ]
Alexandra Andrews’s debut novel follows a Machiavellian aspiring writer who becomes entangled in her work for a best-selling fiction writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
When we started sheltering in place at the beginning of the pandemic, in a burst of energy and optimism I haven’t experienced since, I started a social distance book club. I selected Lara Williams’s debut novel Supper Club, which I’d recently read, because I thought a book that centered on women... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-03-02 12:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps it’s not surprising that even the prose in illustrator Forsyth Harmon’s debut novel Justine is deeply imagistic. Reading this short, powerful story feels like wandering through a museum exhibit about teenage girlhood on Long Island in the summer of 1999. Narrator Ali and her friends feed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-03-02 12:00:00 UTC ]
“Burnt Sugar,” a debut novel by Avni Doshi, depicts a particularly intense mother-daughter relationship — from the tormented daughter’s point of view. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-02 10:00:08 UTC ]
Hodder Studios has pre-empted two books from Sarah Bonner, including her debut novel Her Perfect Twin, described as an "original, compelling and propulsive" thriller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 10:16:58 UTC ]
Virago has acquired the debut novel by Sharma Taylor, What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, at auction as part of a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 03:02:12 UTC ]
Sceptre has landed a "stunning" short story collection and debut novel by Serpent's Tail assistant editor Leon Craig. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-28 15:58:25 UTC ]
Lauren Oyler’s debut novel brings the reader down a rabbit hole of endless, mindless scrolling, online identities, and conspiracy theories. Fake Accounts follows the journey of a young woman after she discovers that her boyfriend is running an Instagram account spouting dangerous conspiracies... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-02-26 12:00:00 UTC ]
In “The Committed,” a follow-up to “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism’s ghosts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-26 10:00:03 UTC ]
In Daniel Loedel’s haunting debut novel Hades, Argentina, Tomás Orilla returns to Buenos Aires—“a city made for forgetting as much for nostalgia”—ten years after fleeing the military dictatorship whose regime disappeared upwards of 30,000 thousand political opponents, including Isabel Aroztegui,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-02-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
The movie adaptation of Nico Walker’s Cherry—the best-selling debut novel about an Iraq veteran turned heroin addict turned bank robber—will be released in theaters in two days, directed by the Russo Brothers (who you might know from Avengers) and starring Tom Holland (who you might know from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-24 18:21:44 UTC ]
Nancy Johnson’s debut novel “The Kindest Lie” is a well-crafted exploration of class, race, and culture; of motherhood; and of family ties. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-02-17 13:46:20 UTC ]
Nancy Johnson’s debut novel “The Kindest Lie” is a well-crafted exploration of class, race, and culture; of motherhood; and of family ties. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-02-17 13:46:20 UTC ]
Picador has netted New Animal, a “sharp and witty” debut novel by poet and sculptor Ella Baxter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 20:43:00 UTC ]