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From the trenches of WWI to the coast of Australia, these two debut novels depict the ubiquity of coming of age, even when the circumstances are dras…
3 years, 7 months ago
Poured Over Double Shot: Jenny Jackson and Ann Napolitano
Family dynamics, for better or worse, are front and center in these two novels from two striking voices in fiction.
Jenny Jackson's debut, Pineapple…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jenny Odell on SAVING TIME: DISCOVERING A LIFE BEYOND THE CLOCK
"I'm also trying to make use of how innate I think curiosity is for people, because curiosity is kind of a way towards hope… it's in that direction."…
3 years, 7 months ago
Eleanor Catton on BIRNAM WOOD
"I'm interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you didn't know you had."
Eleanor Catton, Bo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Will Schwalbe on WE SHOULD NOT BE FRIENDS: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP
"How do you spot a 'we should not be friends' friendship? It's when someone shows you who they are, and you like it."
Will Schwalbe, author of The En…
3 years, 7 months ago
Eloghosa Osunde on VAGABONDS!
"Each time I wrote a story that belonged in this book… It held some pain. It held some love. It held some hope, some longing..."
Eloghosa Osunde's d…
3 years, 7 months ago
Samantha Shannon on A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT
"I feel like we're in a real golden age of fantasy that's exploring diversity from lots of different perspectives, and telling lots of stories that n…
3 years, 7 months ago
Asale Angel-Ajani on A COUNTRY YOU CAN LEAVE
"When you've been disappointed for that long in your life — what kind of people are you? What do you become?"
A Country You Can Leave, the debut nov…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS
"I'm one of those writers that … I think I know the story I want to write when I'm going in with a novel … but by the time I get into the middle of i…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rebecca Makkai on I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU
"It's a literary, feminist, boarding school murder mystery — everyone's favorite genre."
I Have Some Questions for You is the thrilling and inventi…
3 years, 8 months ago