Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Homeseeking, the highly-anticipated debut novel by Karissa Chen, which will be published by Putnam on January 7th, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-04-11 11:10:00 UTC ]
This Earth Day, settle into "A Fire So Wild," Sarah Ruiz-Grossman's debut novel about the societal impacts of climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2024-04-05 09:45:24 UTC ]
The biting cultural commentary that emanates from the pages of Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry is like the too-bright light of a smartphone screen at night, pulling you closer and keeping you absorbed late into the night. One year following a secret suicide attempt that only Jules, our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel Headshot takes place in the confines of a boxing ring in Reno, Nevada, over two days of championship matches to determine the winner of the 12th Annual Women’s 18 & Under Daughters of America Cup. Her protagonists, eight teenage girls, fight each other in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-12 09:00:38 UTC ]
Summit publisher Judy Clain’s inaugural acquisition, a debut novel titled ‘Great Black Hope’ by Rob Franklin, bodes well for storied imprint’s relaunch. Clain, previously editor-in-chief of Little, Brown, called Franklin “the writer we dreamed of publishing” at Summit. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
Are utopias becoming a trend in fiction during this dystopian era? The debut novel from Phillip B. Williams, 'Ours,' embraces magic without ignoring reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-24 11:09:13 UTC ]
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 | 2024-02-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]