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 ]
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 ]
The debut novel follows a child detective bent on tracking down a missing classmate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-06 17:56:05 UTC ]
Emily Nemens' debut novel about a fictional baseball team takes on the social swirl of spring training. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-02 15:00:12 UTC ]
Shannon Pufahl’s remarkable debut novel “On Swift Horses” tells a searing story about a forgotten side of 1950s America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-01-28 20:36:21 UTC ]
The debut novel examines the lives of people who are more interested in how they appear online than who they are in real life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-21 17:44:04 UTC ]
In this delightful debut novel Katherine Kayne sweeps us back to a Hawaii still mourning its lost kingdom, where ladies—their ballgowns covered in yards of protective fabric—gallop across the mountains and down the city streets on their way to polo matches and parties, men dance the hula as well... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-17 09:46:07 UTC ]
Heidi Sopinka’s debut novel The Dictionary of Animal Languages is the deceptively gentle tale of the aging artist Ivory Frame, whose character and life are based, both loosely and closely, in alternation, on Leonora Carrington. In fact, Sopinka was struggling to write the book—struggling to get... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-13 09:48:01 UTC ]