E. B. Moore’s Loose in the Bright Fantastic (available now) follows gray-haired Maggie as she escapes from the hospital, wearing only her johnny, an ancient mink, and her dead husband’s oversized wingtips. She’s on the loose in Boston’s Public Garden where…
When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision meant to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets and lies that threaten to upend her life decades later. Following up on her Massachusetts Book Award winning…
A novel of resources and exploitation, of protest and compromise, of dreams and sacrifice, Rachel Heng‘s The Great Reclamation follows Ah Boon from boyhood—when his discovery of plentiful fish around mysterious islands shores up his fishing village—through World War II, Japanese…
Julie Carrick Dalton’s The Last Beekeeper is a touching story about a very possible future–in a world without pollinators, amidst mass starvation and economic collapse, a young woman searches to understand her father’s role in society’s downfall, and her own…
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 8 Current Project: The PMS Problem (Flatiron ’24), Nonfiction What is your work when you’re not writing? I…
Zakariah Johnson’s Egg on Her Face: Stories of Crime, Horror, and the Space in Between is a gripping, genre-bending short story collection that will take you to unexpected places. These sharply observed stories focus on the struggle to survive in…