Jenny Fran Davis’ debut novel Dykette is indisputably, vibrantly, hilariously queer. Dykette follows three couples (and a charismatic pug) on a ten day, pressure-cooker trip to Hudson, New York. The oldest of the couple, Jules Todd (a news anchor who reads like a fictional Rachel Maddow) and her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-05-18 11:00:00 UTC ]
In her debut novel A History of Burning, Janika Oza gives us the story of a family, one migration journey at a time. Beginning with indentured labor that leads the first member of the family, Pirbhai, from his home in India to East Africa, we follow four generations across several continents and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-05-12 11:00:00 UTC ]
The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopiaDead Ink Books has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for Missouri Williams’s “astonishing” debut novel The Doloriad.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-26 08:35:38 UTC ]
Jeff Boyd’s searching debut novel portrays a Black musician alienated from his city, his faith and his past. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-10 09:00:16 UTC ]
Actor Millie Bobby Brown sells a debut novel to William Morrow, and S&S buys a memoir from Sheila Johnson, cofounder of BET. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
“I queued up to get his autograph with nothing but a dollar bill for him to sign,” says the pop star, whose debut novel is “This Bird Has Flown.” “He glanced up, amused, gave me a mischievous half-smile and said, ‘Ah, defacing U.S. currency,’ and proceeded to sign it.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-04-06 09:00:12 UTC ]
Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs has written a novel, 'This Bird Has Flown,' about an 'over-the-hill' one-hit wonder finding love — and it kind of rocks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-04-03 13:00:21 UTC ]
Millie Bobby Brown of 'Stranger Things' will release her debut novel later this year. 'Nineteen Steps' is inspired by her grandma's experiences during WWII. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-03-24 22:14:27 UTC ]
Formative love affairs and sentimental educations are classic novelistic territory. And for good reason— these connections serve as catalysts, tell stories taut with tension, and leave characters forever changed. Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel Thirst for Salt describes such a relationship, set in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-03-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
When Alice Winn stumbled on the archives of her British boarding school’s newspaper, she discovered a world, only to see it “destroyed and dismantled” during World War I. She brought it back in her novel, “In Memoriam.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-03-05 14:54:05 UTC ]
Tracey Rose Peyton is the guest. She is the author of the debut novel Night Wherever We Go, available from Ecco Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: Brad Listi: This book really brought into focus for me the awful risks and costs of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-03 09:53:42 UTC ]
Alfred A. Knopf will publish the debut novel by Dann McDorman, the executive producer of MSNBC’s 'The Beat with Ari Melber,' this fall. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-24 05:00:00 UTC ]
“The Applicant,” a debut novel by Nazli Koca, features a worldly-wise 20-something Turkish writer who works as a cleaner at a Berlin hostel while struggling to figure out what kind of life she wants to lead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-14 10:00:12 UTC ]
The last few months have been an exciting time in the world of publishing, not only for the litany of debut novel and short story collection releases, but also for the publication of two long gestating, highly anticipated projects by Cormac McCarthy and Katherine Dunn. The 89-year old’s first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-02-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
Marisa Crane’s debut novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is set outside of our reality: in an America where a cruel form of public shaming has taken the place of prisons. In Exoskeletons we meet Kris, a new mother struggling to see a future for herself and her kid in the wake of her partner’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-02-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-02-06 10:00:09 UTC ]
The young Black woman giggles behind her hands as she sits in the furthest corner of the lecture hall at the DC public library where I’m launching Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, my debut novel about a cast of women, of all ages and backgrounds, who become entangled with a freedom-loving jazz... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-06 09:55:20 UTC ]
On an isolated island in Maine, a woman is pushed to the brink to save her family, in Meghan Gilliss’ debut novel “Lungfish.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-01-19 22:19:20 UTC ]
Josh Riedel's debut novel 'Please Report Your Bug Here' tries to be both a sendup of circa-2010 Silicon Valley and a futuristic sci-fi cautionary tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-18 14:30:20 UTC ]
In his debut novel 'Vintage Contemporaries,' Dan Kois tracks two friends with big dreams in '90s New York and pays homage to late author Laurie Colwin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-13 14:00:22 UTC ]