Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 1 Current Project: Loose in the Bright Fantastic, a forthcoming novel (Frayed Edge Press May 16, 2023) …
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 9 Current Project: There Is No Bear on Our Lake, literary fiction What writers have most influenced your…
In 2020, I noticed a massive buzz surrounding a certain book—The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. V.E. Scwhab’s novel hadn’t even come out yet, and it already seemed like the book of the year. Of course, I had to test…
In A Day Like This, Kelley McNeil writes about Annie, a mother and artist who seeks to unravel the truth of her past after she learns her beloved young daughter never existed. Annie Beyers has everything―a beautiful house, a loving…
“In spite of all Jack’s intelligence, he was a slow learner emotionally. Now that he’s dead, he understands more. One message of the book: don’t wait until you’re dead to understand everything.” – Diane Wald Diane Wald’s new novel, My…
“Society cannot exist,” the philosopher Edmund Burke cautioned, without “a controlling power upon will and appetite…men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” A similar warning may reside in The Rock Eaters, Brenda Peynado’s beautifully bizarre…