New Books in Literature
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Daphne Kalotay, "Blue Hours" (Triquarterly, 2019)
It’s 1991, and recent college graduate Mim wants to be a writer, but for now she is folding clothes at Benetton...
30 min
1527
Gill Paul, "The Lost Daughter" (William Morrow,...
"The Lost Daughter" is a thoroughly satisfying read: Romanov fans will rejoice at this latest iteration of the alternative narrative...
58 min
1528
Chelene Knight, "Dear Current Occupant" (Book*h...
"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...
44 min
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Cadwell Turnbull, "The Lesson" (Blackstone Publ...
In Cadwell Turnbull’s "The Lesson", the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa,
36 min
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Melissa Albert, "The Hazel Wood" (Flatiron Book...
The Hazel Wood(Flatiron Books, 2018) is a shivery delight, like a dazzling vintage ball gown of paisley silk, slithering over your head...
28 min
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Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
38 min
1532
Rebecca Clarren, "Kickdown" (Arcade, 2018)
Award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years...
26 min
1533
C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of...
In his interview, Fletcher discusses the research that informs the novel’s “soft apocalypse"...
33 min
1534
Linnea Hartsuyker, "The Golden Wolf" (Harper, 2...
The Golden Wolf seamlessly blends Old Norse folklore with creative imagination to paint a picture of ninth-century Norway from the inside...
31 min
1535
Karen Hugg, "The Forgetting Flower" (Magnolia P...
Karen Hugg loves plants and is thrilled when new cultivars or varieties are discovered...
23 min
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G. P. Gottlieb, "Battered" (D. X. Varos, 2019)
It is not easy to interview a writer of murder mysteries without giving away too many details...
31 min
1537
Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publi...
Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...
66 min
1538
Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Ca...
Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...
34 min
1539
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, "This is How ...
The only thing that endures after millennia of espionage and intrigue is love...
51 min
1540
Eyal Kless, "The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chro...
A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, "The Lost Puzzler" takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world.
41 min
1541
Rabeah Ghaffari, "To Keep the Sun Alive" (Catap...
It’s 1979, and the Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse...
31 min
1542
David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers ...
Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...
34 min
1543
Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Mo...
Willig nimbly balances Emily’s story against her grandfather’s, interweaving the stories of three families across two timelines into a seamless whole...
35 min
1544
David Wellington, "The Last Astronaut" (Orbit, ...
Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion...
46 min
1545
Sarah St. Vincent, "Ways to Hide in Winter" (Me...
"Ways to Hide in Winter" is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love...
23 min
1546
Rachel Stolzman Gullo, "Practice Dying" (Bedazz...
"Practice Dying" is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world...
26 min
1547
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of...
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...
67 min
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jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...
44 min
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Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Si...
For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”
37 min
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Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press...
For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...
31 min