Hello and welcome to the very niche readership who understands what I am talking about and why I am excited and amused by this! The rumors (from this headline) are true: Principal Snyder, also known as Armin Shimerman, has recently published the first novel in a historical fantasy series about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 15:43:11 UTC ]
Sarah Crossan’s first novel for adults is, like some of her celebrated YA novels, written in verse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-17 13:59:37 UTC ]
My first novel was released within six months of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s memoir of Appalachian roots and a youth spent in a Rust Belt community with a dearth of jobs and resources. Vance’s book came out just before the 2016 election; mine was released just after. Donald Trump’s victory had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-11-17 12:01:45 UTC ]
Every year, we ask The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalists to reminisce about the first book they fell in love with. This year, we asked Finalists to reflect not just on the first story that stole their heart, but the story that seeded curiosity and empathy for the plight of others... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 09:48:30 UTC ]
Jonathan Franzen is set to return in the US next year with Crossroads, the first novel in a new trilogy from the author. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-16 09:26:52 UTC ]
John Murray is publishing a new novel from Susan Beale, whose debut novel The Good Guy was shortlisted for 2016's Costa First Novel Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 19:51:11 UTC ]
In her first novel published in 14 years, author Julia Alvarez explores grief, isolation, and sisterhood. Afterlife follows Antonia, a writer and retiring English professor, who has just lost her husband Sam. As she reimagines what her life will be without her husband, Antonia also struggles... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-11-02 12:00:33 UTC ]
I DON’T KNOW when I first became aware of Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s writing, but it was probably sometime between 1980, when Raymond Carver lauded her on the basis of her National Book Award–nominated first novel Rough Strife, and 1989, when Sven Birkerts raved about Schwartz’s PEN/Faulkner... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-29 15:00:49 UTC ]
In one of my earliest memories I am standing on a beach with my father and we are sculpting the shape of a woman’s body out of sand. In my mind it is winter—Avalon in the off-season—and I see us huddled in coats, wrapped in wool, bracing ourselves against the salt wind that blows in […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-29 08:50:18 UTC ]
Interviews Ari Larissa Heinrich / Photo by Tara Pixley Ari Larissa Heinrich is the translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). They... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-27 22:09:23 UTC ]
This one goes out to all the writers in the Year of our Lord 2020, as we all worry that our total inability to put a sentence together could turn into a lifetime of non-production: It’s never too late. Wole Soyinka, who in 1986 became the first person from sub-Saharan Africa to win a Nobel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-27 19:39:22 UTC ]
ON JULY 2 of this year, I interviewed the author Nadia Terranova at her mother’s house in Santa Marinella, Italy, on a Zoom call from my apartment in Santa Monica, California. Back in 2015, I’d written a review of her first novel Gli anni al contrario (The Years in Reverse) and we’d met for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-27 17:00:01 UTC ]
In her 20s, she set up her own company, publishing everyone from James Ellroy to the Worst Witch series, and changing Britain for the better, book by book There is a revealing story Margaret Busby tells, about the first novel she published. A family friend had bumped into a former US serviceman... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-22 05:00:17 UTC ]
No Exit Press will publish Russell Banks’ new novel Foregone as a lead fiction title in June 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 01:47:40 UTC ]
William Heinemann is publishing the first novel in almost 20 years from actor, writer and director Ethan Hawke: A Bright Ray of Darkness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-05 04:15:41 UTC ]
Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
Nunez’s first novel since winning the National Book Award follows a woman and her terminally ill friend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-16 16:32:08 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Patricia Lockwood's first novel No One Is Talking About This, after winning a 10-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 02:57:52 UTC ]
The new book from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell takes place in one house, but in it, she finds infinite space. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-09-10 18:15:39 UTC ]
What was the first novel? Why was it written? What need did it fill? Who wrote it? And most importantly, can you still read it today? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-02 10:32:00 UTC ]