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Podcast Episode 06: Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers

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SubscribeApple | Google | Spotify | Stitcheror listen below Ilana Masad is a fiction writer and book critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, The Paris Review, NPR, and more. She is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also serves as the assistant nonfiction editor for […]

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Genevieve Hudson’s Boys in Alabama explores what it means to be queer in the Deep South

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Genevieve Hudson’s debut novel Boys of Alabama comes with a lot of buzz. After he debut story collection Pretend We Live Here mad a big splash in 2018 with their electric prose and fascinating characters, this book builds on those skills they so carefully displayed across the stories. Boys of Alabama is about Max, a […]

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Catherine House is the book Elisabeth Thomas always wanted to read; so she wrote it

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Elisabeth Thomas always loved Gothic Literature. She wanted to be transported away from her reality. The Yale-graduate, now working as an archivist for The Museum of Modern Art, knew she would always try her hand at a modern Gothic book. Catherine House, inspired by her interest in the culture of elite American universities and colleges, is […]

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How Amy Jo Burns found herself again in her debut novel Shiner

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Amy Jo Burns 2014 memoir, Cinderland, allowed the world into her childhood. She revealed how one lie could ruin everything. She won over readers with the raw honesty that oozed from her beautiful sentences. Now, in her debut novelShiner, she builds off her skilled writing and transports readers into a West Virginia town where a […]

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Digital Book Tour – Jessica Pearce Rotondi, What We Inherit

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With so many author tours being canceled, Debutiful has invited any author who had events canceled or postponed due to COVID-19 to do a reading and a brief interview as part of the Digital Book Tour podcast series. Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher

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Tomasz Jedrowski shines a light on queer romance in Poland in ‘Swimming in the Dark’

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Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski is a captivating portrayal of queer love in Europe at a time when relationships between men were staunchy looked down on. Though, as Jedrowski explained in a letter that accompanied the advance copy of his debut novel, he reminds readers that many of the LGBTQ+ community in Poland […]

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Podcast Episode 05: Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart

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SubscribeApple | Google | Spotify | Stitcheror listen below Sara Sligar teached English and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Prior to that, the author of Take Me Apart obtained her Ph.D from University of Pennsylvania. Her debut book is a literary thriller about an archivist who becomes obsessed with her subject’s mysterious death. The psychological suspense incorporates found […]

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Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa turns her eye to a debut story collection

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Souvankham Thammavongsa has released four poetry collections to high acclaim, including 2019’s Cluster. The same year, she also won an O. Henry Award for her short story “Slingshot.” The author, who was born in Thailand and rasied in Canada, has turned her eye away from poetry long enough to put together an emotional and personal […]

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