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Raphael Montes is featured in this book trailer for his English-language debut, Perfect Days (Penguin Press, 2016), a crime novel translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin. Montes was a finalist for both the Benvirá Literature Prize and the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters for his first novel, Suicidas (Saraiva/Benvirá, 2012).
Naomi Jackson shares her favorite writing tools and personal photos that provided inspiration for the characters in her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, published today by Penguin Press. Read more about Jackson in “First Fiction 2015" in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, and catch her tour in the Reading Tour Manager.
"That little sliver of territory between truth and fiction is kind of where I want to put all my stories." Reif Larsen introduces his new novel, I Am Radar (Penguin Press, 2015), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Brookline Booksmith hosts a reading and discussion with Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press, 2014) and Jennifer De Leon, editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). Read "Ethnicity and Craft: Creating Characters, Not Caricatures" by De Leon in the new issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
A Good Hard Look, Ann Napolitano's second novel, is a fictionalization of the last few years of Flannery O'Connor's life in Milledgeville, Georgia. In this clip, the author and her editor, Jenny Smith, discuss the book, which will be published this week by Penguin Press.
