GalleyCrush: Brown Girls
Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, forthcoming from Random House on January 4, 2022.
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Repurposing “Creative Waste,” the Most Popular Books of the Season, and More
David Schurman Wallace writes about “the new stakes of poetry in the networked age”; McKayla Coyle and Alexandria Juarez celebrate bisexuality on the page; Alice McDermott reflects on questions of life and craft; and other stories.
Lena Waithe and Gillian Flynn Join Zando, Rereading While Reconstructing a Whale, and More
Ross Simonini writes about achieving a balance of mental states; Melissa Lozada-Oliva discusses her poetic ethos; Liz Asch discusses challenging taboos via erotica; and other stories.
Chuck Palahniuk Announces Novel With Substack, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, and More
Mai Der Vang discusses how archival research informed Yellow Rain; Casey Gerald attunes to both his soul and his surroundings; Esther Freud reflects on the family dynamics in her short story “Desire”; and other stories.
Ten Questions for Casey Plett
“It was a fever dream process of creation.” —Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman
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Comic Book Helps Preserve an Indigenous Language, Second Annual BIPOC Bookseller Awards, and More
Arab and Muslim community members speak on the aftermath of 9/11; New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard discusses his book club; Oprah Daily shares a multi-genre reading list of books by Latinx writers; and other stories.
Craft Capsule: The Edge of a Scene
The author of The Devoted recommends looking around the edges of a story to locate the unexpected places and times where drama can unfold.
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National Book Award Longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction, PEN America Literary Grant Recipients, and More
Kate McKean has penned a primer on money matters in book contracts; James Hannaham is aggravated and inspired by the poetry of Fernando Pessoa; Amil Niazi studies how Sally Rooney renders the erotic; and other stories.
GalleyCrush: Honor
Thrity Umrigar’s Honor, forthcoming from Algonquin Books on January 11, 2022.
HarperCollins Folds in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, Two More National Book Award Longlists, and More
Marie-Helene Bertino shares notes on the art of writing the impossible; Gal Beckerman goes for a hike with novelist Anthony Doerr; Helen Shaw profiles novelist Ruth Ozeki for Vulture; and other stories.
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