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by Aster H., October 19, 2023 8:46 AM
Geoff Rickly is a musician and author, though he is best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the hardcore band, Thursday. He’s also a member of the bands No Devotion and United Nations and the founder of Collect Records. His debut novel, Someone Who Isn’t Me, is the first book published by Rose Books (which was founded by author Chelsea Hodson with the express purpose of publishing Rickly’s debut) and was released July 25, 2023. This book is a spiraling journey into the mind...
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by Kelsey Norris, October 17, 2023 9:40 AM
Describe your latest book.
House Gone Quiet, my debut, is a collection of ten short stories about the bonds and bounds of community. From a town that replaces its Confederate monument with a rotating cast of residents, to an apartment complex of women sent across a border to make husbands of the enemy, to a support group of traumatized joggers meeting to discuss the dead bodies they’ve found on their runs, the characters within these stories examine the complexities of what it means to call a place home...
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by Kelsey Ford, October 3, 2023 9:39 AM
The release of Elizabeth Hand’s newest novel, A Haunting on the Hill, marks the first official sequel to Shirley Jackson’s iconic The Haunting of Hill House, officially authorized by the Shirley Jackson estate. A Haunting on the Hill returns us to that malignant house, alongside a group of writers, actors, and singers who think it will be the perfect place to finesse their production of a very witchy play. They probably should’ve paid attention to the warnings about the house, but if they had...
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by Eliza Clark, September 28, 2023 9:31 AM
Describe your latest book/project/work.
Penance is an untrue crime novel — that is, a fictional novel told in the form of a true crime book. The book covers the violent murder of a teenage girl by three of her schoolmates and is told by a washed-up tabloid journalist — but how much of it is true? It’s came out on September 26 — and response has been very positive so far!...
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by C Pam Zhang, September 26, 2023 9:30 AM
Describe your latest book/project/work.
Land of Milk and Honey is about the search for pleasure at the end of the world. A smog has descended and killed all food crops when an American chef is lured to a secret colony of the wealthy at the border of Italy. It’s the story of how one woman comes alive again to food, to her body, to her own source of pleasure in a world that seems to be dying; and it’s also the story...
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by Maya Binyam, August 9, 2023 9:41 AM
Describe your latest book.
Hangman tells the story of a middle-aged exile who is returned to his home country after twenty-six years of living in America. The circumstances of his return are unclear, though he senses he may be there because his brother is sick, or perhaps his brother is dead already. The book follows him over the course of four days as he journeys to his hometown. Along the way, he is propelled by interactions with strangers who he confuses for family, and family who he confuses for strangers. There’s an absurdist quality to a lot of those interactions, and the narrator’s tone moves between slapstick and melancholy, until eventually it slips into something like horror....
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by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, July 12, 2023 9:20 AM
Describe your latest book.
My debut novel, The Centre, is about Anisa, a Pakistani translator living in London who stumbles across a mysterious language school where you can become absolutely fluent in any language in just ten days. For Anisa, a bit lost and striving for something she herself can’t quite discern, this seems like a dream come true, but of course, entrance into the Centre comes at a price...
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by Gail Tsukiyama, June 20, 2023 9:37 AM
Describe your latest book.
My latest book, The Brightest Star, was inspired by Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star during the early days of Hollywood. She boldly struggled against the anti-miscegenation laws and racism of the time, watching white actresses in yellowface get all the coveted movie roles while she was relegated to playing servants, damsels in distress, and dragon ladies. Still, Anna May made close to sixty films in her forty-year career that crossed over from silent films to the talkies...
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by Helen Schulman, June 8, 2023 9:32 AM
Describe your latest book.
I felt like I was on fire the whole time I was writing Lucky Dogs, even when I was downed by long-haul Covid. The book was fueled by all the breaking articles about high-powered men using their considerable resources to get away with sexual abuse on a massive scale. Lucky Dogs is about two young women, cursed by beauty, who, despite being pitted against one another by some of the richest, most influential men in the world, form a passionate, if unholy, attachment. Merry is a wild, young TV actress...
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by Jamie Loftus, May 23, 2023 12:09 PM
Photo credit: Andrew Max Levy
Describe your latest book.
My book is called Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs. It’s a book about hot dogs, via a road trip I took across the country with my ex-boyfriend and pets during the summer of 2021. I hope you’ll think it’s funny and learn about hot dogs and become a socialist (me vibes) or a vegan (not me vibes) or both after reading it. It’s about the hot dog’s history, dating back to the primordial sausage, through the industrial labor and animal right’s nightmare that is the meatpacking industry past and present, and via the small businesses and people I encounter on our journey. Highlights include a thorough detour into one of my favorite topics of all time, women’s professional hot dog eating rivalries, and whether people are fucking on the Oscar Meyer wienermobile or not (they are). It’s also a reflection on a relationship and an eating disorder that objectively were not working, across a country that was aggressively ignoring the plague. I can’t believe they let me write it and I hope you enjoy it....
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