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 ]
Renard Press has made its first acquisition, landing Iain Hood's debut novel This Good Book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 22:40:39 UTC ]
Mieko Kawakami, whose poignant and pointed debut novel Breasts and Eggs is this season’s LARB’s Book Club selection, joins Medaya Ocher and Boris Dralyuk to discuss her career as a musician, poet, blogger, and author, the challenges facing women around the world, the state of Japanese... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-24 17:23:00 UTC ]
Emma Gannon is releasing a four-part series of podcasts to mark the publication of her debut novel Olive (HarperCollins). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-23 16:12:33 UTC ]
Today, Simon and Schuster announced that their imprint Scribner will be publishing the debut novel for adults from #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book author Jason Reynolds, whose books include Look Both Ways and Ghost, both finalists for the National Book Award for Young People’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-22 16:30:17 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has scooped an “exceptional” debut novel from journalist and former Waterstones bookseller Jo Hamya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 17:27:41 UTC ]