“My mother did not move from the bungalow’s doorway. Her apron, stained with baby burp and breakfast grease, seemed to pull down at her narrow shoulders. She brushed a dark sheaf of hair away from her face and boosted my…
Thanks for sending me your manuscript—nearly finished, I hope! It’s certainly some kind of achievement to literally capture your audience inside this sprawling dystopia. Your stakes recall the four horsemen, even your scenes of grocery shopping contain conflict, and you’ve…
If there’s one thing we can all agree on this year, it’s that sweatpants are pretty great. Maybe we didn’t appreciate them enough pre-pandemic. Maybe we had an old pair from college, tucked away for years, that we now realize…
Beetlejuice meets The Good Place in Suicide Souls, Penni Jones’ darkly comic and wildly imaginative new novel about a special afterlife where people who have taken their own lives must watch their loved ones grieve in order to earn a…
It’s a new year! Yay! And the vaccine is rolling out! Finally, you can exhale and concentrate on your novel. Not so fast, Hemingway. The end might be in sight, but as much as we we’d all like to move…
The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2020! “Beauty is beautiful in the way of a scalpel blade. It’s that sharp and precise, that lacerating, that true.” –Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Hours