“How Much of These Hills Is Gold,” by C Pam Zhang, reimagines the region’s past as a Chinese-American tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-07 09:00:07 UTC ]
At once subversive and searching, the debut novel focuses on two sisters on the run whose roots lie in an unnamed country “from beyond the ocean.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-06 20:54:23 UTC ]
Chelsea Bieker's 'Godshot,' a surreal debut novel set in the parched Central Valley, depicts a fundamentalist rain cult and sex worker resisters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-06 14:30:59 UTC ]
Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut novel envisions an archipelago of Indigenous peoples who refuse to be erased. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-31 12:43:39 UTC ]
The debut novel intersperses the story of a tech reporter in Silicon Valley with Facebook posts, tweets, Google results and other fragments. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
In Megan Giddings’s debut novel Lakewood, desperation leads to a loss of self in a capitalist medical system bent on taking advantage of Black people and their bodies. After the death of her grandmother, Lena, a college student struggling with overwhelming medical debt and taking care of her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-03-24 11:00:00 UTC ]
Head of Zeus is to publish the debut novel of Nicole Kennedy, a former city lawyer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-23 14:35:00 UTC ]
“My Dark Vanessa” will strike a chord with women. But it ought to be read by men Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
MARA FAYE LETHEM is one of the translators of Albert Sánchez Piñol, a Catalan writer whose debut novel Cold Skin, a sparse psychological thriller, caused a sensation in Spain. Lethem also translated Piñol’s second novel, Pandora in the Congo, a fabulist tale that is by turns laugh-out-loud funny... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-19 19:00:32 UTC ]
“My Dark Vanessa” will strike a chord with women. But it ought to be read by men Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-03-19 15:48:46 UTC ]
TFW you didn't love the debut novel and are completely taken by surprise when you fall head over heels for that same author's second book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-03-19 10:35:57 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Publishing has won Imogen Crimp’s debut novel, The High Notes, in a four-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 18:04:44 UTC ]
Hilary Leichter’s destabilizing debut novel imagines a productivity-centric dystopia, not far off. Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2020-03-13 14:00:59 UTC ]
My novel The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida is a story of how a young woman’s unexplained suicide shapes and transforms the lives of those she left behind. It’s a literary mystery with elements of magical realism set in Japan, not unlike my debut novel Rainbirds. Because of these, I am often... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-03-09 11:00:00 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has "swiftly pre-empted" debut novel Highway Blue from Ailsa McFarlane, a 23-year-old writer who had never shown her work before sending it to agents. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-08 18:43:41 UTC ]
Film rights to Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club (Viking), have been snapped up by Amblin Partners in a 14-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 16:08:49 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has won Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, a satirical debut novel about race and authenticity in the workplace, for a six-figure deal following a nine-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-01 20:26:38 UTC ]
This week's book events are fully locavore: Lynell George's essays on the city's rich cultural tapestry; Erin Khar's memoir of teen addiction in the mid-1980s; Thomas Pynchon's Cali counterculture noir; a debut novel from Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz; and a visit from Pod Save... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-28 19:52:47 UTC ]
Sally Rooney’s takeover of the world continues apace today with the announcement that the Irish literary phenom’s debut novel Conversations With Friends will be adapted into a twelve-part series for the BBC. Like the upcoming BBC/Hulu adaptation of Rooney’s 2019 juggernaut Normal People, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 18:39:10 UTC ]
If you haven’t had a chance yet to read Kiley Reid’s smash-hit debut novel SUCH A FUN AGE, now is ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-25 18:15:40 UTC ]