In his debut novel, Jeffrey Luscombe brings us back to a place we haven’t seen much of in recent literature: ...
Timothy Woodward’s debut novel If I Told You So (Kensington) chronicles experiences familiar to many queer folks: the nervous, terrified thrill of...
A fun fact about lightning: a strike lasts for about 30 microseconds.
Lightning People starts with a similar flash. The narrator of the prologue, Joseph Guiteau, speaks in conspiratorial terms, suggesting a link between a rise in lightning-related Manhattan-area deaths and the fall of the Twin Towers. Read More
This dazzling debut takes the coming-out, coming-of-age narrative and gives it a fresh landscape, namely, the Bronx urban scene, where the street codes are “mixed into the concrete and asphalt that was used to build the neighborhood.” Read More
Justin Torres’ We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is all the best one hopes to encounter in a young author’s debut...
Set in the declining town of Leominster, Massachusetts in the 1980s, Michael Graves’ blistering debut collection Dirty One (Chelsea Station...
If the point of a writer’s biographical note is to make it sound like the writer is busy, then Los...
Like every gay boy in 1970s South Africa, Nicholas van der Swart must hide that part of himself that is...
You’ve heard the story before, right? Second generation immigrant from [insert country] works twice as hard to fulfill his parents’...
The VIPs (Broadway Books/Random House), Scott Poulson-Bryant’s first novel, is no let-down. The author must have spent many a night...
