Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…
Leah Weiss is an acclaimed southern writer living in Virginia. Her debut novel If the Creek Don't Rise was released in 2017 and selected as Library Reads, Indie Next, and SIBA Okra Pick. It was…
Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post…
"I was inspired by my dear friend and mentor, Robert Frank, who encouraged me to look beyond just pretty pictures and consider what I was trying to say. What were the photographs about, and what…
A native-born Kentuckian, Kim Michele Richardson is a New York Times, L.A. Times, and USA Today bestselling author who has written six novels, including The Book Woman's Daughter, a memoir and most…
Leila Siddiqui was born in Chicago, raised in Texas, and now lives in New York with her husband. She is also a digital marketing strategist in publishing. When she's not writing, she spends her time…
Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in their purse, and nothing particular to interest them on shore, Alexis Hall thought they would sail about a little and see the…
Tesia Tsai was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She currently teaches at Brigham Young University and lives in Utah with her husband, two cats, and a dog. When not writing or…
Սարսափ։ Ոմանք սիրում են այն։ Ոմանք՝ ոչ։ Եվ, ընդհանուր առմամբ, մարդիկ հակված են ուժեղ զգացմունքներ ունենալ ժանրի նկատմամբ՝ ընկնելով այս կամ այն ճամբարի մեջ։ Մի փոքր հեգնանքով, կան մարդիկ, ովքեր «վախենում» են սարսափից որպես ժանր։ Այո, նրանք վախենում են ժանրից...
Երբ ընթերցողները Մարջորի Մաքքաունի «Վերջնական կտրվածքի» վերջում հեռացան Ջոի Ջեսափից, նա արդեն բացահայտել էր մարդասպանի ինքնությունը, որը սպանել էր ռեժիսորի օգնական Քորթնի Լայլին մեծ բյուջեով սուպերհերոսական ֆիլմի նկարահանման հրապարակում: Նա ողջ էր մնացել իր դեմ մահափորձից, երբ մարդասպանը...
Իվենը պրոֆեսիոնալ մարդասպան է։ Այս պնդման վրա շեշտը պետք է դնել «պրոֆեսիոնալ» բառի վրա։ Նա վերակենդանացած մարդասպան է, որի հիշողությունները ջնջվել են և ծառայում է Մարդասպանների Տիրուհուն, որը հնարավոր դարձրեց նրա երկրորդ «կյանքի» հնարավորությունը։ Նա արդյունավետ է, զգույշ և պատրաստ է սպանել (տերմինը...
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
