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 ]
Kiley Reid’s debut novel is a funny, fast-paced, empathetic examination of privilege in America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2020-01-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens’s debut novel has sold more than four million copies — an astonishing trajectory for any new writer, much less for a 70-year-old wildlife scientist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-21 10:00:08 UTC ]
This week, Lauretta Charlton reviews Darryl Pinckney’s collection of essays “Busted in New York.” In 1992, Edmund White wrote for the Book Review about “High Cotton,” Pinckney’s debut novel about a young black man coming of age. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-20 10:00:00 UTC ]
Find a new author to follow or the first book your fave wrote with this list of debut novels by queer authors for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-18 11:31:50 UTC ]
Text Me When You Get Home: the Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen SchaeferIt’s a non-fiction book about the change in perspective around female friendship over the last few years, featuring interviews with a huge range of people including Judy Blume. The book looks at... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-17 09:49:28 UTC ]