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Writers to Watch: Spring 2022
Adoption narratives, genre-bending novels about the horrors and inequities of life, and promising collections round out this season’s notable fiction debuts.
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Sarah Manguso Takes a Novel Approach
Despite the fact that I’ve spent my entire career saying I would never write a novel, I realized this was the form I needed.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2021
This fall’s notable fiction debuts feature explorations of class, race, and sexuality.
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Brandon Taylor’s Constellations of Stories
I went home and wrote my first real short story in a furious rage.
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Writers to Watch: Spring 2021
This season’s hot debuts include a psychological thriller about a young woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her writerly ambition, a systems novel set in Las Vegas, an exploration of the racial divide after Obama’s election, a chronicle of a new mother’s metamorphosis into a dog, and much more.
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On Nature and Nationalism with Sarah Moss
As she wrote Summerwater, Moss was thinking about the attitudes about public space that emerge in moments of popular nationalism such as Brexit.
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The Dark Side of Daisy Johnson
There’s a very uncomfortable and slightly squirmy thing about existing as a human with other humans. I didn’t want Sisters to be a horror novel, but I wanted it to take aspects from horror.
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John Waters Has Never Been Wrong
The author, filmmaker, and provocateur’s latest book looks back on his long career and offers some hard-earned advice for misfits and weirdos.
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All Books Are Maybe Books: The Millions Interviews Tim O’Brien
My youngest kid saw me writing and he said, "What is it?" That's when he suggested the title. Call it what it is. Call it a maybe book.
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I’m Very Bad at Being Secular: The Millions Interviews Nathan Englander
I feel like my wife’s afraid she’s going to come through the door and I’ll be koshering the kitchen or I’ll turn Hasidic while she’s out picking up our kid.
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A Veteran Reflects on America’s Longest War
In nine years wearing military uniforms I only trained to fight offensive wars. My training had nothing to do with the defense of American soil.
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