Matthew Langdon Cost’s ambitious historical novel of the Cuban revolution, I Am Cuba, came out in early March just as libraries and bookstores were closing down and cancelling plans to help him launch his book. It was very bad timing…
“Kept Animals is a darkly beautiful book, tender yet powerful, an exquisite exploration of hurt and desire, the why of wanting, taking, and giving.” —Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses “In this rugged and ravishing debut, a tragic car…
Give us the elevator pitch for your book. THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN is a magic-realistic, multi-generational saga of a family suffering under a mysterious curse, spanning from WWII to a few years after the 1979 revolution in Iran. The novel…
I have a book on my shelves titled Animal Husbandry that makes me smile every time I catch sight of it. Someone, likely thinking I’d find it apt because I grew up on a farm, gave it to me at…
Yeah, I know. For those whose work lives aren’t considered “vital” during the pandemic (and why are there so many of us?), there’s plenty out there telling you how to buckle down and get work done at home—and some of…
Picture a dystopian America divided into two classes, mostly submerged underwater, lorded over by the internet that’s half surveillance and half-AI. The haves are the ‘netted’ who are ‘angelfair’, and live on high dry ground, and have jobs. The have-nots…