Gabby Rivera Wants Queer Brown Girls to Feel Seen

Gabby Rivera’s YA novel follows Juliet Palante, a Puerto Rican teen from the Bronx, who is reckoning with her feminism and queerness. After coming out to her family, she goes to Portland to be a summer intern for her favorite feminist author, Harlowe Brisbane. Juliet believes this will be the summer that answers all of […] The post Gabby Rivera Wants Queer Brown Girls to Feel Seen appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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10 Queer Comics and Manga That Made 2020 Bearable

Get through the rest of the year with some sweet, queer comics and manga, including I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up by Kodama Naoko. Continue reading at Book Riot

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In ‘The Berlin Girl,’ a British journalist uncovers terrible secrets in 1937 Germany

Author Mandy Robotham’s historical novel pays homage to such real-life journalists as Sigrid Schultz and Martha Gellhorn. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Feeling moody? One author shares wisdom about halting those downward spirals.

In “The Book of Moods,” Lauren Martin borrows from cognitive therapy, Buddhism, New Age pop psychology and neuroscience. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Allen Lane wins 'radical new history' of queer identity in four-way auction

Allen Lane will publish Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a new history of seven queer lives and the places that made them by writer and academic Diarmuid Hester. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Lilliam Rivera’s Orpheus and Eurydice Remix: Talking about Never Look(ing) Back, by Bayleigh Acosta

Interviews Photo of Lilliam Rivera by Lilith Ferreira / Las Fotos Project Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of children’s books who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Rivera’s work has appeared in the New York Times,... Continue reading at World Literature Today

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Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’

Michelle Gallen’s winning novel documents one Irish woman’s effort to organize the chaos swirling around her. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Have to Cover Up

In Fariha Róisín’s debut novel Like a Bird, protagonist Taylia Chatterjee lives a privileged life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her sister Alyssa. Alyssa often receives preferential treatment from their liberal, overbearing parents—a white Jewish mom, a Hindu Bengali dad. Taylia is... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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Bloomsbury spreads word with industry-exclusive proof for The Other Black Girl

Bloomsbury has launched its marketing and publicity campaign for Zakiya Dalila Harris' publishing-set novel, The Other Black Girl, with a proof going exclusively to industry professionals. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Little, Brown's Sphere and Piatkus imprints launch Fresh Ink Award

Little, Brown's Sphere and Piatkus imprints are teaming up with digital marketing consultancy The Tandem Collective to launch a new writing prize that champions underrepresented voices in the romance genres. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Styles wins Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award

Emma Styles has won the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2020 for her novel, No Country for Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Craig Brown has won the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

The Baillie Gifford Prize, founded in 1999 following the end of the NCR Book Award for Nonfiction, celebrates the best non-fiction writing in the English language of the year. The honor comes with £50,000, and each of the shortlisted authors will receive £1,000. Previous winners include Hallie... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Brown's 'joyous' Beatles biography wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented the art of biography”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Stories Happen in the Space Between How We Feel and What We Say

Short stories are a complex form, one that author and professor Danielle Evans continues to show herself adept in. The ever-shifting opportunities of short fiction are evident in Evans’s work, from her debut collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self to her latest, The Office of... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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Hamish Hamilton to publish sequel to Barker's The Silence of the Girls

Hamish Hamilton has acquired Pat Barker's The Women of Troy, the "eagerly awaited" sequel to The Silence of the Girls (Penguin, 2019). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Alex Brown signs multi-book deal with HarperCollins

HarperCollins has signed a multi-book deal with author Alex Brown which will see her published across its HarperFiction and One More Chapter imprints. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Gordon Brown’s Seven Ways to S&S

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has signed up to write a new book for Simon & Schuster, assessing seven major challenges facing the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ellis-Brown becomes HarperNorth editor-at-large

Former Trapeze senior commissioning editor Katie Ellis-Brown is now working for HarperNorth as the new imprint's editor-at-large. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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OUP acquires Em Norry's middle-grade novel about a girl spy

Oxford University Press has acquired Em Norry’s middle-grade title, Amber Undercover, about a teenager who has a secret double life as a spy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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