“I’m grateful now for having had so many strange work days and stories to hold on to afterward.” Jason Allen talks with Barrett Bowlin about his debut novel, The East End, out next week from Park Row Books.
“Life often feels overwhelmingly absurd and viscerally meaningful at the same time. I wanted to write from that feeling. So, even though my book is a satire of sorts, it’s also a work of loving fascination.” Evan James talks with Mark Mayer about his debut novel.
“If the end has truly come for the likes of the hoary old patriarchy, then let it happen on Ridker’s watch.” Michael A. Ferro reviews Andrew Ridker’s The Altruists, out now from Viking.
“I thought the time for the book had come and gone, but when I pulled the book out again in 2017, I realized the topic had become relevant again in the intervening years.” Julie Landsdorf chats with Kate Lemery about her debut novel, White Elephant, out tomorrow from Ecco.
“But for Max, Berlin constitutes a border between what’s he’s comfortable with and what he’s fascinated by and afraid of.” Agata Popeda reviews Michael Levitin’s debut novel, Disposable Man, out from Spuyten Duyvil.
The form of motherhood is beautifully banal: Melissa Scholes Young on the interplay between form and meaning in Lydia Kiesling’s debut novel.
“It’s the ultimate act of forgiveness, I think, this deciding to let go of how our lives might have turned out differently.” Jaclyn Gilbert and Shayne Terry talk writing, running, and Jaclyn’s debut novel, Late Air, out next week from Little A.
“All the primary characters are projections of my personality, but the roaches most embody who I am”: Alice Hatcher chats with Michelle Ross about her debut novel, The Wonder That Was Ours, winner of Dzanc’s 2017 Prize for Fiction.
Alice Miller talks with Katharine Dion about her debut novel, the thorniness of sincerity, the way a poem leaps, and the crucial gift of staying alert.
“If writing is kintsugi on the page, kintsugi is the art of losing”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on returning to the writing life, her debut novel, and piecing together lives and art.
