Beautifully sharp and atmospheric, We are All The Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin is a haunting psychological noir that starts with a girl found in a field and ends in revelations that redefine a small town’s mythology. It is written from…
Lauren Ho’s sharp-witted debut Last Tang Standing (Putnam) opens with 33-year-old lawyer Andrea Tang attending her matriarchal aunt’s Chinese New Year party, when unmarrieds and children are given ang paos, customary red envelopes of cash symbolizing luck and happiness which…
Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning film and television director as well as a prolific screenwriter. Her debut novel Hannah’s War is a literary thriller about a gifted Austrian-Jewish physicist whose seminal work on nuclear fission is co-opted by the Nazi…
Dead Darlings is delighted to introduce one of our own, 2014 Novel Incubator graduate Mark Guerin. His dazzling debut, You Can See More From Up Here (Golden Antelope Press), releases today. I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark about his…
One of my very favorite books is The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz (Random House, 1996). In it, there are black and white photographs of famous writers at their desks. I have never been the kind of writer – to…
Everyone has to do research from time to time. When one reader exclaimed of my early sprawling draft, set in the 1930s and ‘40s: “You sure know a lot about a lot!” I did not take it as a compliment….