Burned By Books
Episodes
Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England...
Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon afte...
Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist...
Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and at...
Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Bomer is the author of The Stalker (Soho Books, 2025), which received a starred Publisher’s Weekly, calling it “dark and twisted fun”. S...
Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two kid...
Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025)
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie, and Twins. She has received fello...
Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Gram is a writer, cultural historian, and designer. She leads an experience-design team at Google. She has taught at the Maryland Institute Col...
Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025)
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Minor Black Figures (Riverhead, 2025), The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for...
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Mutual Interest" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith is the author of the novels Mutual Interest (2025) and Glassworks, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel P...
Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yiming Ma holds an MBA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays appear ...
Emily Adrian, "Seduction Theory" (Little, Brown, 2025)
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Adrian is the author of Seduction Theory (Little, Brown, 2025) Daughterhood, The Second Season, and Everything Here Is Under Control, as...
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, "The Sisters" (FSG, 2025)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more th...
Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezue...
Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Stevens is an award-winning author of memoir and fiction. Her work has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas P...
Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bon...
Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2024)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green lawns in a California desert; a meandering stampede of unleashed dogs on th...
Jesse Browner, "Sing to Me" (Little Brown, 2025)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Browner is the author of the novels Sing to Me (Little Brown, 2025) The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today, among others, as well a...
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nightshining (Milkweed, 2025) Jennifer Kabat is the author of The Eighth Moon, her writing has also appeared in Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’...
Kate Folk, "Sky Daddy: A Novel" (Random House, 2025)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Folk, Sky Daddy (Random House, 2025) Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy and the short story collection Out There. Her short fic...
Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Nguyen, My Documents (One World, 2025) Kevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves, published in 2020. He is the features editor at T...
Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope (Summit Books, 2025) Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction, criticism, and poetry, and a c...
Emily Everett, "All That Life Can Afford" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. Bu...
Andrew Porter, "The Imagined Life: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to h...
Betsy Lerner, "Shred Sisters" (Grove Press, 2024)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight unti...
Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human...
Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024)
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Inst...
Emma Pattee, "Tilt" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman’s journey acro...
Joseph Earl Thomas, "God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral ...
Nora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting ...
Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity bef...
Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and ma...
Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024)
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local...
"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishigu...
Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew’s debut novel Last Resort was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. You can hear our...
Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the mo...
Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk o...
Booksellers’ Best 2024
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore...
Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum...
Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and...
Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from C...
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was...
Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Like Happiness" (Celadon Books, 2024)
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self-Crippling (2022), selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner...
S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay m...
Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean ...
Mary Jones, "The Goodbye Process" (Zibby Books, 2024)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In her stunning debut short story collection, The Goodbye Process (Zibby Books, 2024), Mary Jones uses her distinctive voice to examine the painful ...
Kaliane Bradley, "The Ministry of Time" (Avid Reader Press, 2024)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently ...
Chelsea Bieker, "Madwoman" (Little, Brown, 2024)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Chelsea Biker about her novel Madwoman (Little, Brown, 2024). Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her ...
C. Michelle Lindley, "The Nude" (Atria Books, 2024)
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what ...
Jessica Anthony, "The Most" (Little, Brown, 2024)
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's November 3, 1957. As Sputnik 2 launches into space, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance...
Cally Fiedorek, "Atta Boy" (U Iowa Press, 2024)
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family bus...
Megan Nolan, "Ordinary Human Failings" (Little, Brown, 2024)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" -- ordi...
Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to no...
Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structur...
Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Di Renzo's Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023) is the most audacious guide to Rome you will eve...
Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything... When young queer dancer Wilbess "Bessy" Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police,...
Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024)
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Real Americans (Knopf, 2024) begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media c...
Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic...
Jennine Capó Crucet, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing u...
Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't...
Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the author of Sea Change comes Green Frog: Stories (Vintage, 2024) a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies,...
Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Po...
Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024)
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself st...
Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her t...
Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Phil...
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner so...
Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through s...
Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the p...
Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 2023) explores the weight of the devil's bargain, foll...
Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a ho...
Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of lif...
Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), are engrossing, strange, eerie, and em...
Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled ...
Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 2023) follows a writer fro...
Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single d...
Booksellers' Best Books of 2023
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every year one of my absolute favorite episodes is the Booksellers Best-Of episode for which I get to interview independent bookstore managers, owners...
Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives...
Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Jule Schumacher about her new novel The English Experience (Doubleday, 2023). Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dea...
Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping (Ecco Press, 2023) probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories ...
Laura Sims, "How Can I Help You" (Putnam, 2023)
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm....
Mina Seçkin, "The Four Humors" (Catapult, 2022)
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mina Seçkin's novel The Four Humors (Catapult, 2022) follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, ...
Angie Kim, "Happiness Falls" (Hogarth Press, 2023)
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virg...
Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a ...
Caroline O'Donoghue, "The Rachel Incident" (Knopf, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon i...
Hilary Leichter, "Terrace Story" (Ecco, 2023)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their ...
John Fulton, "The Flounder: Stories" (Blackwater Press, 2023)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The riddles of desire, youth, old age, poverty, and wealth are laid bare in this radiant collection from a master of the form. From inner-city pawnsho...
Katherine Heiny, "Games and Rituals: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Katherine Heiny about Games and Rituals: Stories (Knopf, 2023). The games and rituals performed by Heiny's characters range from ...
Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis...
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--th...
Kate Doyle, "I Meant It Once" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre...
Ruth Madievsky, "All-Night Pharmacy" (Catapult, 2023)
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers...
Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Ade...
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ada--a woman from Montreal living reluctantly in Michigan--vanishes from her bed one night while her husband Danny is asleep beside her, her young son...
Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in o...
Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opér...
Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "fem...
Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple tur...
Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa's death. In the wake of...
Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan... Darl...
Rebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely ...