Debut Novel: A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out
June 23, 2018 2:50 pm Leave your thoughtsAn ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising–and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be... View Article
Debut Novelists
Sarah Schmidt Debut: See What I Have Done
January 11, 2018 1:24 pm Leave your thoughtsSEE WHAT I HAVE DONE Debut novel by Sarah Schmidt (Grove Atlantic, March 2017) Lizzie Borden took an ax... View Article
River in Darkness, the Harrowing Story of Escape From North Korea
November 1, 2017 3:44 pm 2 CommentsRIVER IN DARKNESS by Masaji Ishikawa (Biography/Memoir, Shinchosha 978 – 4102900352, and Amazon Crossing in the USA) is the harrowing true... View Article
Meet Random House Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue
October 19, 2017 12:56 pm Leave your thoughtsMeet Random House debut author Imbolo Mbue, the winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award, recognized as America’s largest peer-juried... View Article
Francesca Hornak’s Warm, Wry Novel Infuses Family With Too Much Togetherness
October 11, 2017 12:58 pm Leave your thoughtsA warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel that portrays what happens when a family is quarantined together over the holidays—and... View Article
Face Value by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
June 27, 2017 2:48 pm Leave your thoughtsA self-proclaimed beauty obsessive, author Autumn Whitefield-Madrano spent more than a decade working at women’s magazines, where she witnessed firsthand... View Article