On October 5, this timeline will be blessed/cursed by Jonathan Franzen’s first novel since 2015: Crossroads, or, if you’re not abbreviating, Crossroads: A Novel: A Key to All Mythologies, Volume 1. It’s the first novel of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, which, yes, nods to the doomed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-10 17:59:29 UTC ]
HarperNorth has snared its first fiction acquisition, a gritty gangland thriller by Karen Woods. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 01:06:27 UTC ]
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH was the original kinky bastard. A 19th-century Viennese nobleman, he wrote the controversial 1870 novella Venus in Furs, which explored his fetish for pain and abasement, and inadvertently helped coin the term “masochism.” The Masochist, Slovenian poet Katja Perat’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-19 18:00:58 UTC ]
Virago is publishing the first novel in two decades from Gayl Jones, Palmares, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil on Portuguese plantations and in the last fugitive slave settlement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 23:38:33 UTC ]
Sarah Ferguson says historical tale Her Heart for a Compass is inspired by experiences in her own lifeThe Duchess of York has landed a book deal with the romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon, revealing that she “drew on many parallels from my life” for the historical tale.Sarah... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-13 10:13:08 UTC ]
I consider myself Argentine. I tell people it is not only part of my origin story but my identity. My first novel is titled Hades, Argentina, and to my friends I’m sure that seems fitting, the natural summation of my life and literary ambitions so far. But the truth is I had never been to […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-12 09:48:41 UTC ]
Eley Williams’s first novel follows characters living in London more than a century apart who toil to compile the same ill-fated dictionary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-05 10:00:02 UTC ]
When my wife and I were expecting our first child, a friend described it as “the ultimate deadline.” Many writers I’ve known since have determined to finish their books before a baby arrives. Some do, of course, but the deadline wasn’t so ultimate in my own case. I was five years into my first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-05 09:49:10 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate's first novel in 48 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 16:14:16 UTC ]
Yes, the two-time National Book Award finalist and America’s most famous contemporary practitioner of the Joni Mitchell school of marriage fiction (think about it) is returning to the novel game. Riverhead Books announced earlier this afternoon that Matrix—Groff’s first novel since 2015’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 18:25:06 UTC ]
William Heinemann will publish Bewilderment, Richard Powers' first novel since his Booker-shortlisted and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory (William Heinemann, 2018). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 19:27:03 UTC ]
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 ]