Arthur's debut novel Once a Queen, a young adult "portal fantasy," talks to PW about writing her first novel, and her love of fantasy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Scott Guild's debut novel (and companion album) 'Plastic' is a dark and entertaining saga about a postapocalyptic world populated by plastic figurines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-15 21:43:40 UTC ]
When I was ghostwriting full-time, I produced twenty books in fourteen years. Thanks to a suggestion from my literary agent, I realized a ghostwriter might make a great heroine—they’re under tremendous pressure, often while adjacent to the fame machine—so Mari Hawthorn, the ghostwriter at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-02-15 12:05:00 UTC ]
Andrew Ewell's debut novel 'Set for Life' is well-written but doesn't fulfill its potential. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-09 16:00:10 UTC ]
The debut novel from Leo Vardiashvili, 'Hard by a Great Forest,' has its commercial trappings but ultimately lands with lyrical and heartbreaking resonance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-31 18:43:16 UTC ]
Temim Fruchter’s debut novel centers around a young woman, Shiva, seeking answers about her family’s past after the death of her father. Told in revolving perspectives, between women in Shiva’s family and a mysterious, omniscient narrator, the book explores the interior lives of women,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-01-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
Temim Fruchter’s debut novel centers around a young woman, Shiva, seeking answers about her family’s past after the death of her father. Told in revolving perspectives, between women in Shiva’s family and a mysterious, omniscient narrator, the book explores the interior lives of women,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-01-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
In Kaveh Akbar's brilliant debut novel, 'Martyr!', an Iranian American man in addiction recovery becomes obsessed with the concept of martyrdom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-22 11:00:10 UTC ]
Katherine Min's Korean American debut novel was ignored. After she died in 2019, publishers worked to put out her second novel, 'The Fetishist.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-18 11:00:57 UTC ]
The debut novel 'Dead in Long Beach, California,' is a sharp, dazzling turn for Compton-raised author Venita Blackburn, who made her name with lightning-fast fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-11 11:00:44 UTC ]
Set in World War II, Vanessa Chan’s utterly gripping debut novel The Storm We Made is the story of an unlikely spy and the consequences of her actions. When Cecily, a bored Malayan housewife in British-colonized Malaya, encounters the charismatic General Fujiwara, she is seduced not only by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-01-02 12:00:00 UTC ]
With El Niño slated to drop a warm, wet winter on most of the US in the coming months, everybody’s going to need something good to read while the weather outside is frightful. Engadget’s well-read staff have some suggestions: our favorite books of 2023! We’ve got a phenomenal assortment of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-12-25 16:30:28 UTC ]
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Housemates, the highly-anticipated debut novel by Emma Copley Eisenberg, which will be published by Hogarth on May 28th, 2024. You can pre-order your copy here. When Bernie answers Leah’s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two find... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-12-21 12:15:00 UTC ]
“Gray’s idiom may be modern, but it embraces many traditional things; not only autobiographical realism, but low comedy, afterlife fantasy, scattershot satire, nightmarish allegory, self-referential metafiction, tender eroticism, lunatic scholarship and profuse literary borrowings.” —David... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-19 09:57:38 UTC ]
Where exactly is tech going? Joanne McNeil's debut novel 'Wrong Way' and billionaire Marc Andreessen's 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' offer some clues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 11:00:26 UTC ]
Psychological thriller Eileen is an adaptation of the 2015 debut novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, who often writes about female loners, giving special attention to the parts of her characters that many would consider unbefitting of a leading lady. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-12-08 09:00:00 UTC ]
Farah Ali’s debut novel The River, The Town is a haunting portrait of lives relegated to the margins by capitalism and its resulting byproduct: the inequitable distribution of resources. The world of the novel centers two places, the Town and the City, and the narrative focus, in typical... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-11-20 12:01:00 UTC ]
The moment I learned that Shilpi Suneja’s debut novel House of Caravans was about Partition, I reached out to see if she would be interested in doing this interview. All four of my grandparents lived through this event in Punjab—the state that was split to create Pakistan days after India gained... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-11-13 12:00:00 UTC ]
The author of “Mother-Daughter Murder Night” started working on her debut novel during a time of tremendous stress. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-10-26 09:02:09 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for C. Michelle Lindley’s debut novel, The Nude, which will be published by Atria in June. Here’s a little bit about the book from the publisher: A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel about an art historian who journeys to a Greek island to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-10-03 14:00:04 UTC ]