To say that Ladee Hubbard has an original imagination is an understatement. Her inventive debut novel, The Talented Ribkins (Melville House, 2017) is wild ride—part superhero quest, part thriller, part, well…you’ll see. The book tells the story of Johnny Ribkins,…
We at Dead Darlings are thrilled to share author Jodi Paloni’s interview with Virginia Pye about her forthcoming short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, which Kirkus Reviews called “…a deeply moving meditation on the complexity and potential generosity of love.”…
On Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 at 7PM, Craft on Draft, a reading series developed by Grub Street’s Novel Incubator alumni, presents A Writer’s Voice – How to Develop Yours and Your Character’s Voice at Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 338 Newbury St….
I love writing. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, blog posts—anything, really. I compose unnecessarily long emails. Even my text messages are wordy. I can’t help it. I love writing. But my skill set sometimes feels frivolous, a bit impractical, when it comes…
In Rebecca Traister’s newest tour de force, Good and Mad (Simon & Schuster, 2018), she shares a memory from an early job in a male-dominated office where she found herself weeping in inexpressible rage. A female colleague dragged her into…
Bangladeshi-Canadian writer Arif Anwar’s splash onto the literary scene has been remarkable. His debut novel, The Storm, has been published in Canada by HarperCollins, in the US by Simon & Schuster, and in India by Aleph. It is also slated…