Nina LaCour's first novel for adults, "Yerba Buena," follows a promising and complicated lesbian love story in the mold of Sarah Waters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-26 13:00:31 UTC ]
The adaptation of Sally Rooney’s first novel can’t quite bring tricky source material – repressed characters, digital communication – to lifeIt was always unlikely that Conversations with Friends, the new Hulu and BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s first novel, would be able to repeat the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-24 06:05:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith's first novel since her seasonal quartet takes place in our pandemic-inflected world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
“Liarmouth” is about three generations of women in one family who plan to confront or kill one another. It also has a trampoline fun park. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-03 09:00:08 UTC ]
Last year not only marked the twentieth publication anniversary of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, it also saw the release of his first novel in seven years, Crossroads. So it was only fitting that Picador would embark on a redesign of the author’s backlist. We spoke with Alex Merto, the art... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-17 08:54:52 UTC ]
Lee Cole’s first novel is not only the story of a young man finding his vocation as a writer but also a wrenching examination of class differences Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-14 11:00:51 UTC ]
Dolly Parton has written her first novel with the help of best-selling author James Patterson. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2022-03-10 00:01:14 UTC ]
After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
'Moon Witch, Spider King,' the second in Marlon James' incantatory Dark Star trilogy, flips the script on his first novel to tell a woman's side. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-15 14:00:10 UTC ]
Brendan Slocumb is clear about the lived experience behind The Violin Conspiracy, a propulsive first novel about the theft of a Stradivarius valued at $10 million on the eve of the international Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The book is based in part on his own experiences as a concert... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-09 09:49:43 UTC ]
The memoirist Sarah Manguso’s first novel is about a young girl’s life in a small, snowy New England town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-02-06 10:00:06 UTC ]
At the risk of reigniting the Sally Rooney Discourse—today, Hulu and BBC Three released a few early images from their upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling first novel Conversations With Friends, which will premiere sometime this spring. (If you somehow don’t know what this novel is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-04 13:53:52 UTC ]
On January 14, 1963, poet Sylvia Plath published her first novel in England under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas.” The book had a positive but relatively quiet reception; only a few weeks after its publication, on February 11, Plath would die by suicide. It wasn’t published in the US until 1971,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-14 09:50:32 UTC ]
Two decades ago, I wrote my very first novel while working at The Community Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. That job enabled me to complete my book, not just because of the flexible hours, but because the other staffers were all aspiring writers, and many of our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-12 09:50:45 UTC ]
Book Reviews Jean Giono at his home, Le Paraïs, in Manosque, France, 1942 / Photo by André Zucca / Courtesy Les Amis de Jean Giono Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired in the Archipelago Books edition of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2022-01-11 21:02:53 UTC ]
"To Paradise," by Hanya Yanagihara, is the author's first novel since "A Little Life" became a major literary event in 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-11 13:00:00 UTC ]
A recent roundup of the ‘best books of 2021’ had every possible genre of novel – with the unsurprising exception of romanceIn the four months since my first novel came out, I’ve had the same conversation probably a dozen times.“What’s it about?” a well-meaning stranger will ask. “Well,” I’ll... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-05 15:25:24 UTC ]
Academic Alex Hyde‘s first novel is a lyrical tale about two women named Violet during the Second World War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 18:23:13 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer explains the origins of his latest book’s title, why novels are harder to write than plays, and the masochistic pull of political activism. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-11-02 22:37:29 UTC ]
News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]