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 ]
Wildfire has pre-empted former Home Secretary and memoirist Alan Johnson’s debut novel, The Late Train to Gipsy Hill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 23:51:47 UTC ]
DURING ONE KEY MOMENT, E. Lily Yu’s disquieting debut novel On Fragile Waves offers a kind of authorial self-critique regarding the representation of diasporic migrants. A character Yu calls “the writer” has traveled to Australia to interview asylum seekers in the Afghan migrant community there... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-06 16:00:46 UTC ]
Today, as we have done in years past, LARB honors Black History Month by highlighting a series of reviews, essays, interviews, and exchanges of letters we published in January. Below you will find a poignant essay on the Compton Christmas Parade; a penetrating interview with Kiley Reid, author... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-01 13:30:13 UTC ]
“Fake Accounts,” Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, considers how social media has reconfigured our behavior, relationships and how we think of ourselves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-01 10:00:02 UTC ]
The best-selling author just found out that her debut novel is soon to be on the first lady’s bedside table. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-28 10:00:04 UTC ]
Culture A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives Matter protests, the film Parasite, and literary “complicated works of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-01-27 20:33:27 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing the debut novel of comedian, actress and writer Isy Suttie, Jane is Trying, in July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 11:15:14 UTC ]
Oyler’s debut novel is about a smart, irascible narrator who is steeped in the concerns and tone of social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-26 21:16:27 UTC ]
Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house of horror’Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a lawyer was using up all the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-25 06:00:07 UTC ]
An excerpt from a debut novel Booklist calls "sharp and haunting." The post ‘The Divines’: Featured Fiction from Ellie Eaton appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-01-19 17:00:59 UTC ]
For me, reading Torrey Peters’ debut novel Detransition, Baby is akin to listening to your favorite hometown band headlining their first stadium concert. You end up marveling over how experiences you thought you knew well are rendered in utterly unexpected ways, and realize how patterns from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Less than a month on from the movie poster controversy (Cherrk!) that rocked the internet to its very core, the first trailer for Cherry—the Tom Holland-starring film adaptation of Nico Walker’s 2018 semi-autobiographical debut novel about an Iraq War veteran turned drug addict turned bank... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-14 19:34:29 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has picked up Hourglass, the “exquisite” debut novel from Keiran Goddard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 22:27:32 UTC ]