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See the cover for Let All Our Ghosts Depart by Meghana Mysore
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (256+ words) Let All Our Ghosts Depart'will be published on September 1, 2026, by'West Virginia University Press. Mysore's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in'The Yale Review,'The Massachusetts Review,'The Audacity, and more. She is the winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in…...
Sarah Wang, author of New Skin, wants you to read Carceral Capitalism
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (272+ words) Sarah Wang's writing has appeared in'The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the'London Review of Books,'The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, n+1,'and'BOMB,'among other publications. Now, her debut novel,'New Skin,'has hit the shelves at bookstores. We asked…...
Abundance author Hafeez Lakhani wishes he had found The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao earlier in life
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (271+ words) Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in suburban South Florida. Since then, his writing has helped him earn fellowships from PEN America and the Center for Fiction, he's been recognized twice with a Notable Essay in Best American…...
Inside The Outer Country: Davin Malasarn on Immigration, Queerness, Family, and the Limits of Belonging
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (792+ words) What does it cost a family to cross an ocean " and who pays the price for generations to come? That is the quietly devastating question at the heart of Davin Malasarn's debut novel The Outer Country. The story begins in…...
See the cover for The Younger and Other Stories by Daniel J. O'Malley
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (219+ words) The Younger and Other Stories'will be published on April 13, 2027, by'Hub City Press. Daniel J. O'Malley's fiction has appeared in'The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Granta, Subtropics, Alaska Quarterly Review, and'The Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and has been featured on…...
Hasan Dudar on the Complexities of the Family-Owned Corner Store in Carryout
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (503+ words) With great lucidity and wit, Dudar brings readers a vivid portrait of immigrants and refugees who have no other choice but to create a new community for themselves in the United States. Carryout is poignant and tender " a mosaic of…...
Mercy Hill author Hannah Thurman wants to read all the Pulitzer fiction winners
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (337+ words) Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hannah Thurman's debut novel, Mercy Hill, follows four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. Richard Russo says it "will…...
Five Books That Bring Saskatchewan to Life, Recommended by Blair Palmer Yoxall
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (146+ words) For my debut novel, Treat Them as Buffalo, I wanted to return to my family and my grandpa's home in Saskatchewan'the land, the people, and the history. Here are six books that help me understand somewhere as historical and mythological…...
Imani Thompson on Writing Honey, Misogyny, and the Lovable Psychopath
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1572+ words) I spoke with Thompson about writing the terrible thing, what community looks like in the literary world, and the rhythm of language and words. TM: And when did you graduate?" IH: It was the summer of 2022." TM: And then how…...
Vincent'Yu, author of Seek Immediate Shelter, says literary influence has always been inextricably tied to anxiety
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (237+ words) Set in a small Massachusetts town, Vincent Yu's debut novel, Seek Immediate Shelter, follows a group of residents whose lives fracture in the moments after a false ballistic missile alert forces them to act on their most instinctive impulses. In…...