1 Feb 2012
Tenorio has taken a uniquely Filipino-American perspective, polyglot and glittering with cinema dreams, and used it to make a bold collection of stories of the rejected, the helpless and the lost. “Montress” is the debut of a singular talent. -Alexander Chee
9 Jan 2012
With last week’s news of James Franco’s forthcoming novel, Actor’s Anonymous, getting picked up by Amazon publishing, here’s a list of some other brave actors and celebrities who moonlight as authors.
12 Dec 2011
An underworld of intrigue thrives at the center of Susan Daitch’s new novel surrounding the Georges Méliès film L’affaire Dreyfus… An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction.
16 Nov 2011
In light of Tea Obreht’s NBA nomination for The Tiger’s Wife, we got to thinking about the other debut novels that have received the honor.
18 Oct 2011
Fragoso plumbs the depths of the human condition with her first book, Tiger, Tiger. Undoubtedly painful, inherently suspenseful, and convincing, this gut-wrenching memoir promises a story of a woman who succesfully reclaims her life.
13 Sep 2011
Emma Straub’s debut, Other People We Married, is a story collection to be savored. Read it too quickly and you’ll run the risk of missing the small moments that come to shape Straub’s characters and her stories.
15 Jul 2011
Helen Phillips’s debut collection of one-page fabulist stories, And Yet They Were Happy, is thronged by wonders. It is the work, as Amy Hempel has said, of a “deeply interesting mind.”
14 Jul 2011
In the beginning, I just wanted to write. Why should I care how humans had come to love literature and art? I didn’t care. Until I asked the question.
See Rivka Galchen’s new story in the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker “The Entire Northern Side was Covered with Fire”
From her Tottenville Review Interview:
“I feel pretty confident that there are certain types of people who get most of their pleasure from the way words are arranged. They’ve never been the dominant force of the culture, and they’ll never disappear. I think of it as a sort of high-incidence mutation.” -Rivka Galchen