The Center for Fiction just announced the longlist for this year’s best debut novel. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner will be announced in December at The Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner at its new, spacious, happening location in Brooklyn.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 16:41:15 UTC ]
A drowning haunts Susan Steinberg’s dark first novel about teenagers’ summer adventures. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-07-23 10:00:00 UTC ]
Fig Tree will publish journalist and author Dolly Alderton’s debut novel, Ghosts, about a food writer with a dedicated online following whose personal life is falling apart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 16:29:40 UTC ]
Tochi Onyebuchi’s young adult books, the duology Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder, are fantasy novels with a Nigeria-influenced setting. His upcoming War Girls is set in a post-nuclear, post-climate change Nigeria of 2172. Riot Baby, his first novel for adults (also forthcoming), is a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-07-04 11:00:10 UTC ]
She published her first novel at 50, and her heroines were invariably rich, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-24 20:37:23 UTC ]
As she celebrates a series of career milestones—which coincide with the 20th anniversary of her publisher, Dafina Books—the author starts a new chapter by revisiting classic characters in the long-awaited sequel to her first novel, My Brother’s Keeper. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado I've absolutely loved this collection of short stories, which floats between the weird and the queer, passing horror, black comedy and feminism along the way. Doubles and others are especially important: a wife enters her wife’s dream when they... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-04-11 08:49:28 UTC ]