‘Here Comes The Sun’ by Nicole Dennis-Benn
How do you save your sister, your lover, your home and your ambition? In this brilliant debut novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn aims to present this riddle through rich prose, crackling dialogue, and the lives of three unforgettable Jamaican women
‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ by Kaitlyn Greenidge
That the novel is able to combine ASL culture, race, ambition, family, love, politics, and history is a marvel not to be missed
Carrie Brownstein on the Joys and Agonies of Storytelling
“Music writing can be very frustrating, too, but for some reason, at the end of three hours of trying to write a song, if I’m unsuccessful, it doesn’t feel quite as degrading as not being able to write a successful paragraph.”
‘Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl’ by Carrie Brownstein
The debut memoir from Sleater Kinney member and Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is a whip smart and compelling story that expertly blends music writing with personal revelations
Chinelo Okparanta: On Her New Novel ‘Under The Udala Trees’ and Being a Champion of Love
“It’s too bad that so many of us have a need to psychoanalyze love and destroy it in the process.”
‘Under The Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta has written a new classic of the lesbian novel, timeless in its risk and heart, immediate in its voice for the persecuted LGBT people of Nigeria
‘The First Bad Man’ by Miranda July
July’s talent exists in her ability to create such complex, bizarre relationships while always raising the stakes, but her carefully erected world does require a willful suspension of disbelief.
‘Canary’ by Nancy Jo Cullen
Every story in Nancy Jo Cullen’s debut collection skates along the edge of weirdness. These characters are just a tiny bit off, drawing the reader into their delightful eccentricities.
‘L Is For Lion’ by Annie Rachele Lanzilloto
This sprawling narrative could be called an Italian memoir, a Bronx memoir, a cancer memoir, a veteran father memoir, a 1960s childhood memoir, a mother-daughter memoir, or a lesbian memoir.
