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Debutiful Podcast: Emily Hunt Kivel discusses Dwelling
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Continue reading “Debutiful Podcast: Emily Hunt Kivel discusses Dwelling”My Reading Life: The Compound author Aisling Rawle’s first book love was The Wind in the Willows
Aisling Rawle’s debut novel, The Compound, is a chillingly prescient exploration of reality TV, desire, and survival in a world teetering on collapse. Set on a remote desert compound where twenty contestants compete to outlast each other for luxury rewards and existential purpose, the story follows Lily, a bored and beautiful twenty-something, as she navigates the blurred lines between performance and reality, safety and spectacle, love and manipulation.
We asked the writer to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
Continue reading “My Reading Life: The Compound author Aisling Rawle’s first book love was The Wind in the Willows”My Reading Life: Sunburn author Chloe Michelle Howarth wants everyone to read queer stories of all types
Chloe Michelle Howarth‘s debut book, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year and the Nero Book Awards when it was published in 2023. Now, the book is debuting in America. Set in early 1990s small-town Ireland, exploring the forbidden love between Lucy and Susannah as they navigate secrecy, desire, and the crushing weight of societal prejudice, this is a richly told story for fans of Sally Rooney.
We asked the writer to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her life.
Continue reading “My Reading Life: Sunburn author Chloe Michelle Howarth wants everyone to read queer stories of all types”Keeonna Harris interviews Keeonna Harris
Every now and then, I like to ask writers, “Is there a question you’d like me to ask?” I’m always surprised by the types of questions they’d want to ask themselves, so I decided to take the idea of the self-interview and give writers some restraints.
One. Use Who/What/When/Where/Why questions.
Two. Have fun.
Our latest Debuti-Self Interview features Keeonna Harris, author of the debut memoir Mainline Mama, which explores self-resilience, family, and community. Prior to her memoir, she was awarded numerous honors, including a 2018–2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, a 2021 Tin House Summer Residency, a 2023 Baldwin For The Arts Residency, and a 2023 Hedgebrook Fellowship as the 2023 Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence.
But enough from me. Let’s turn it over to Keeonna Harris.
Continue reading “Keeonna Harris interviews Keeonna Harris”My Reading Life: Fair Play author Louise Hegarty finds the idea of ‘assigned reading’ a little suspicious
Irish writer Louise Hegarty’s debut novel Fair Play follows a group of friends who gather at an Airbnb for a jazz-age themed New Year’s Eve murder mystery party, only to wake up and find the birthday boy, Benjamin, dead. As his sister Abigail reels from the loss, a detective arrives to investigate, transforming the house into a classic whodunit setting where everyone is a suspect and no one is quite who they seem. Both gripping and tender, the novel explores love, grief, and identity while cleverly subverting the conventions of the mystery genre.
The release of the debut mystery builds off of a shining career where she was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize and her short story “Getting the Electric” has been optioned by Fíbín Media.
We asked the writer to answer our recurring My Reading Life questionnaire so readers could get to know her better and discover the books that shaped her life.
Continue reading “My Reading Life: Fair Play author Louise Hegarty finds the idea of ‘assigned reading’ a little suspicious”Nicole Graev Lipson on Motherhood, Literature, and the Power of Complexity
Nicole Graev Lipson is an essayist whose work has appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Millions, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. Her debut book, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters, is a braided memoir that weaves personal experience with literary reflections to explore motherhood, womanhood, and the transformative power of reading.
Lipson and I chatted via email about the complexities of female friendship, the fictions that shape women’s lives, and the freedom that comes with aging.
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