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 ]
Hilary Leichter’s brisk, wildly imaginative book tracks a young woman’s experiences in 23 jobs, including one on a pirate ship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-25 17:40:43 UTC ]
Conversations with Friends will follow Rooney’s Normal People that will air in April The BBC has commissioned a 12-part series based on Sally Rooney’s hit debut novel Conversations with Friends in the hope that fans of the young Irish author will bring in younger audiences.The BBC is to show its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-25 10:19:05 UTC ]
Among this week’s notable deals is the seven-figure sale of a debut novel titled The Other Black Girl. The send-up of the publishing industry, by a former Knopf assistant editor, was pitched as Get Out meets Younger. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate is publishing an "astonishing" debut novel of “extraordinary suspense” from award-winning writer and US Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-19 20:45:41 UTC ]
In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-18 10:00:07 UTC ]