As I prepare for the paperback launch of my debut novel The Girls in Queens, I share with a group of writers and artists that I’m putting together a Book Club Kit. This has become a fairly common digital offering; a colorful PDF of brief insights from the author, a recipe or two related to […] The post I Can’t Offer Up My Culture for Consumption appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2023-07-25 11:12:00 UTC ]
Find Kristen L. Berry’s successful query to agent Sharon Pelletier for her debut novel "We Don't Talk About Carol." The post Successful Queries: Sharon Pelletier and “We Don’t Talk About Carol,” by Kristen L. Berry appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading at Writer's Digest
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There's the latest novel by poet Ocean Vuong, an indie, coming-of-middle-age Indigenous tale, a look at the cost of patriarchy, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-06-03 12:30:00 UTC ]
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In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Drag Race star Miss Peppermint is coleading Queer History 101, a virtual book club merging stories of queer resistance with community. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2025-05-30 10:00:00 UTC ]
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The following story was chosen by Ottessa Moshfegh as the winner of the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually by Selected Shorts and a guest author judge. This story will be performed by an actor this spring. To hear more great short stories performed... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-28 11:10:00 UTC ]
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Who doesn’t love dark academia? The malevolent architecture and forced proximity cut with the youth and ambition that sets it all aflame? Ever since chancing upon a marked-up paperback of The Secret History in the late ’90s, I’ve been obsessed with dark academia and all the micro-genres... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-27 11:05:00 UTC ]
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In this interview, author Martha Hall Kelly discusses how a reading recommendation planted the creative seed for her new book of historical fiction, The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club. The post Martha Hall Kelly: On Personal History Inspiring Historical Fiction appeared first on Writer's... Continue reading at Writer's Digest
[ Writer's Digest | 2025-05-25 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Ocean Vuong’s second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, debuts at #2 on our hardcover fiction list and is the newest Oprah’s Book Club pick. Plus Kennedy Ryan’s third Skyland romance, Can’t Get Enough, lands at #2 on our trade paperback list, and Joe Abercrombie lightens his usual grimdark fare... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In 1994, the graphic novel was formally introduced in India with the publication of Orijit Sen’s River of Stories. Initially, book stores refused to sell it as the graphic novel concept wasn’t recognized. However, with the onset of the internet, digital copies started circulating online and... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-19 11:05:00 UTC ]
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Last month I found myself on a Zoom call with the members of a book club who’d read my debut novel; truly, a bucket list moment in my writing life. Near the end of the call, someone asked the question I suspect every fiction writer gets at some point: Where do you get ideas from? Simple, […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-05-19 08:58:23 UTC ]
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£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’A novel about a Palestinian woman who participates in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2025-05-15 18:15:33 UTC ]
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In her latest book, part memoir and part biography, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen, Monica Macansantos writes fifteen richly textured essays about her father’s legacy both in her writings and in the kitchen where she finds his continued presence as she recreates his recipes that he’s developed... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In her searing and revolutionary memoir First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream, writer and mental health advocate Jessica Hoppe discusses and inspects addiction and how ingrained the culture is within BIPOC communities, notably within the Latine community. In... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Get into these cute totes, pretty notebooks, and helpful guides that will make your book club run smoothly and get members hype Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-05-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A Zora Neale Hurston classic, an award-winning YA, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, domestic suspense, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-05-10 11:30:00 UTC ]
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In The Lilac People, my debut novel about trans people in Weimar Berlin and Nazi Germany, I have a side character so small, they’re downright tertiary. Dora Richter has no speaking role, nor does she have any impact on the plot. And yet she’s included because she’s important, and she was real.... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-09 11:10:00 UTC ]
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“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-09 09:00:05 UTC ]
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Get ready for a literary dystopian centering books, Beyoncé's mom's memoir, a novel with a comp to Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-05-06 10:30:00 UTC ]
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