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“My Last Continent” by Midge Raymond
I’m not giving anything away when I say that My Last Continent by Midge Raymond is a romantic tragedy. Very early on in reading this novel the reader is told that there is…
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“Wintering” by Peter Geye
Wintering begins when elderly Harry Eide disappears from his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota…a wilderness he has known his whole life. He’d done…
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7 Passages from Emma Cline’s “The Girls” That Killed Me
Emma Cline’s debut novel is set for release this summer. June 14th to be exact. It’s been a year and a half since the novel set off a bidding war between publishing houses,…
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“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing is set to be published this upcoming June. She is only 26 years old and has managed to score a seven figure deal for her first book. Sometimes…
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“Fallen Land” by Taylor Brown
As the former director of a monthly first editions fiction bookclub and a current reader on the selection committee for one, I have been asked more than once just what literary fiction actually…