Excerpt: Hum by Natalia Hero
About the Book: http://www.metatron.press Fiction. Women’s Studies. HUM follows a young woman whose life is changed forever when, after being raped, she gives birth to a hummingbird. She must learn to cope with not only what happened to her, but with the bird’s persistent, agitating presence in her life. Natalia Hero’s debut is a beautiful […]
Excerpt: Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria
About the Book: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com A highly anticipated debut—from a writer hailed as “a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion” (Dazed)—brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl’s struggle to become the woman she knows she can be. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, […]
Excerpt: This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce
About the Book: http://www.undertowpublications.com This House of Wounds is the devastating debut short story collection from British Fantasy Award-winning author Georgina Bruce. Haunting and visceral tales for the lost and the lonely. An emotional and riveting debut, with 4 brand new stories. “An astonishing, totally absorbing debut collection. Edgy, disturbing and delicious in equal parts. […]
Excerpt: The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar
About the Book: http://www.counterpointpress.com When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The […]
Excerpt: Shut Up You’re Pretty. by Téa Mutonji
About the Book: http://www.arsenalpulp.com In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides on shaving her head in the […]
Review: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti
“The walk made me realize that in real life, there isn’t actually a last thing. Nothing ends; it just turns into a different story.” That’s what happened with this book, it starts out one story, takes you into another, brings you back to the original, and then ends something completely new. Hawthorne would say things […]
Interview: Tiffany Scandal, Author of NASTY!
About Tiffany Scandal Tiffany Scandal is the author of three books and the Managing Editor at King Shot Press. Her second book (Jigsaw Youth, 2015, Ladybox Books) exists as an audiobook which the author narrates herself. Her third book (Shit Luck, 2017, Eraserhead Press) was a Wonderland Award finalist for Best Novel and received an […]
Feature Interview: Ashley Frampton, founder of Fierce Female February
The Woman Behind Fierce Female February When did you launch your blog, Falling Down the Book Hole? What motivated you to begin blogging about books? AF: It has been a little over 6 years since I created my first blog post about books. [The blog] has gone through many name changes and designs since then […]
Feature: Must Reads of the Summer 2019
HOME REMEDIES: STORIES By Xuan Juliana Wang The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth. A generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king, and life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, and, […]
Feature: My New Beginning
by D.L. Graser Writing a second book about Moustache and Macintosh a memory from my seventh grade art class stirred within me recalling when my art teacher gave us a simple, but difficult assignment (if that makes any sense). We had to draw a picture using letters that make up the objects which we were […]