An excerpt from a debut novel Kirkus calls "hypnotizing and inscrutable." The post ‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’: Featured Fiction from Jamie Marina Lau appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-09-09 10:00:12 UTC ]
“The Discomfort of Evening,” by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, winner of this year’s International Book Prize, is about strictly religious dairy farmers mourning a son’s death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-08 16:16:33 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has won a debut novel by K-Ming Chang in a "heated" five-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 06:51:52 UTC ]
Oprah’s Flatiron imprint nabs a nonfiction title by a Nobel laureate, Holt buys a debut novel by a PRH UK editor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
HQ has scooped The Steel Girls, a debut novel from journalist and university lecturer Michelle Rawlins, in a three-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 19:21:33 UTC ]
Ros Anderson’s debut novel may not break new ground, but the depth of its first-person presentation is a quiet triumph. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-30 06:19:39 UTC ]
In 'Transcendent Kingdom,' Yaa Gyasi's second novel, she focuses on America — its promise and peril — and on one Ghanaian American family in Alabama. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-27 16:49:47 UTC ]
A story collection offers a cleareyed survey of the Black American experience, and a debut novel traverses hundreds of versions of Earth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-27 09:00:05 UTC ]
Janet, the acerbic narrator of Lucie Britsch’s debut novel Sad Janet, is a resister. She’s sad—has been for most of her life—and doesn’t want to take the pills that big pharma, her mother, and the culture at-large is pushing on her to “fix” her. She’s content with sadness, and she’s not into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-08-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
Tinder Press has acquired a debut novel by Naomi Ishiguro, former bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B’s Emporium in Bath. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-20 02:07:21 UTC ]
Rebecca Watson’s debut novel has a simple story line and an experimental approach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-18 07:39:15 UTC ]
Allen & Unwin is publishing Victoria Park, the debut novel of British teacher Gemma Reeves, set in contemporary east London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-14 03:42:15 UTC ]
Xander Miller’s debut novel asks how we can stay together when the world is coming apart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-11 18:21:58 UTC ]
“The Party Upstairs” focuses on the tenants of one building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has won a five-publisher auction for the “dazzling” debut novel from PRH assistant editor Kasim Ali, in a six-figure two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-06 21:45:48 UTC ]
“The Party Upstairs” focuses on the tenants of one building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-08-06 14:59:44 UTC ]
Raven Leilani’s debut novel follows an interracial, intergenerational affair as it leads to an unusual redefinition of family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-06 09:00:04 UTC ]
Jennifer Hofmann’s debut novel follows a Stasi agent trying to make sense of his past. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-08-04 12:00:00 UTC ]
For 18 seasons, he served as creative director and producer of the global phenomenon ‘America’s Next Top Model.’ But his debut novel isn’t the juicy tell-all you might’ve expected. Makeup artist and stylist Jay Manuel has spent more than 20 years in the fashion industry, most famously serving as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-08-03 12:15:52 UTC ]
Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Abir Mukherjee, Courttia Newland, Guy Gunaratne, Paul Mendez and Okechukwu Nzelu on why British writers of colour are left out of the conversationAfter this week’s Booker prize longlist was announced, the Times asked “Where are the new male hotshot novelists?” I was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-31 14:10:18 UTC ]