Bierlein’s debut collection features familiar, post-Sex and the City storylines, but with glimpses of originality and verve.

This week’s feature is Lucia Perillo’s debut story collection, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain (W.W. Norton). She is also the author of six books of poetry, most recently On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and a collection of essays, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing (Trinity University Press, 2007). [...]

Poet Lucia Perillo’s first foray into fiction is a collection of wonders, obsessions and undeniable urgency.

This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, British author Jon McGregor’s new collection, assures you otherwise with plenty of big, bad, foreboding tales.

This week’s feature is Johanna Skibsrud’s debut story collection, This Will Be Difficult to Explain (W.W. Norton). She is also the author of a novel, The Sentimentalists (2011), and two collections of poetry: I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being (2010) and Late Nights With Wild Cowboys (2008). She currently lives [...]

Last week we featured Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection Monstress, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Joshua Duke (@joshmduke)
Meaghan Mulholland (@Meagho)
Kathryn McGowan (@comestibles)

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Lysley Tenorio, author of the hotly-anticipated debut collection Monstress, on secret identity politics, the risk of becoming “that Filipino writer,” lightness and darkness in fiction, and Peter Cetera.

This week’s feature is Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection, Monstress (Ecco). His short fiction has appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He lives in San Francisco, where he is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
In our upcoming interview [...]

Though written in English, Luana Monteiro’s debut collection is firmly rooted in Brazilian culture — carnaval to Coetzee, Candomblé to Christianity.

Last week we featured Eugene Cross’s debut collection Fires of Our Choosing as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Marisa Birns (@marisabirns)
Amanda Persaud (@afavolosa)
Colleen (@booksnyc)

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