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First Taste: Ed Park Reads From An Oral History of Atlantis
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First Taste: Lydi Conklin Reads From Songs Of No Provenance
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Continue reading “First Taste: Lydi Conklin Reads From Songs Of No Provenance”Read an excerpt Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
The following is an excerpt from Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom. They grew up in Illinois and now work as a creative director in Brooklyn. You can subscribe to their Substack, which needs exactly two monthly subscribers to pay for Carlstrom’s NBA League Pass subscription.
Make Sure You Die Screaming follows a nonbinary narrator who, after a corporate burnout and personal trauma, steals a car and leaves Chicago to search for their missing conspiracy theorist father in Arkansas. Teaming up with a chaotic companion, they navigate a surreal, emotional road trip through America’s ideological and economic divides. As they confront their past and the scars left by capitalism, gender expectations, and family dysfunction, the journey becomes both literal and deeply psychological. It is now available to purchase from Flatiron Books.
Continue reading “Read an excerpt Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom”Read an excerpt from Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder
The following is an excerpt from Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder. She is the author of the story collection Boomtown Girl, which won the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award. Originally from Bangalore, India, she now lives in Boston with her family.
Told through a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman navigating her post-college year in the U.S. on a student work visa. As she teaches math and physics at a private high school near Cambridge, she quietly resists the expectations of those around her—family, colleagues, landlords, and students—while longing for the space to write. Through their words and assumptions, a nuanced portrait emerges of a woman shaping her identity, ambition, and sense of belonging. It is now available to purchase from Graywolf Press.
Continue reading “Read an excerpt from Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder”First Taste: Freda Epum Reads From The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
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Continue reading “First Taste: Freda Epum Reads From The Gloomy Girl Variety Show”12 noteworthy debut books you should read this February
Debutiful’s Adam Vitcavage recommends noteworthy debut books for readers to discover each month.
Continue reading “12 noteworthy debut books you should read this February”Read an excerpt from Confessions by Catherine Airey
The following is from Catherine Airey‘s Confessions. Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed Irish and English descent. She studied English at Cambridge and now lives in County Cork. The debut is a spellbinding novel that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again. It is now available for purchase in bookstores everywhere.
Continue reading “Read an excerpt from Confessions by Catherine Airey”First Taste: Maria Zoccola Reads From Helen of Troy. 1993
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