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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Anticipated Debuts
From a family saga steeped in the culture of Barbados to a political drama set in Spain’s Basque Country, this season’s premier fiction debuts are as diverse in their settings as they are in their approaches to narrative form.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Gabriel Urza
Writers have long debated the sociopolitical usefulness of fiction, but few may be as qualified to weigh in on the issue as Gabriel Urza, the author of "All That Followed" (Holt, Aug.).
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Julia Pierpont
Many novelists write about the experience of growing up, but it takes a writer with insider knowledge to capture the experience of growing up in New York City.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Eka Kurniawan
American publishing has a notoriously lackluster record when it comes to work in translation; according to one oft-cited figure, translations account for just 3% of fiction and poetry books published in the U.S. each year.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht’s novel "Imperium" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) goes on sale this July, the first time the German author’s fiction has been made available to English-speaking audiences.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Andrea Kleine
In the early 1980s, Washington, D.C., became the setting for two acts of violence that captivated the nation.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman learned a very important lesson when she was in the early stages of writing her debut novel, "You Too Can Have a Body like Mine" (Harper, Aug.): back up your work.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Naomi Jackson
By the time Naomi Jackson, a 34-year-old writer from Brooklyn, began studying at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 2011, she’d already made significant headway on the novel that eventually became "The Star Side of Bird Hill" (Penguin Press).
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Lauren Holmes
When Lauren Holmes, the author of "Barbara the Slut" (Riverhead, Aug.), first told her friend, the literary agent Duvall Osteen, that she was writing a book, Osteen was “terrified.”
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Ruth Galm
Ruth Galm’s road to publication is the kind of story that aspiring writers, whether they’re facing the blank page or dealing with repeat rejections, might look to for encouragement.
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Writers to Watch: Fall 2015: Elisabeth Egan
Elisabeth Egan has spent much of her career writing about books other people have written.
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A Writer's Evolution: Patrick deWitt
It’s mid afternoon and the Breslin Bar is dark as a cave. Patrick deWitt, 40, folds himself into a corner table and orders the Flatiron Fling, a complicated potion topped with a thick, tea-colored head of egg foam.
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The Girls of Gotham City: Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan has had a peripatetic career. Her work in the comics industry has traversed self-publishing, indie comics, and mainstream comics, where she created the art for books from Vertigo, Image Comics, Dark Horse, and others.
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Fear? Absolutely Not! Erica Jong
'Fear of Dying,' Erica Jong's first book of fiction in 12 years, publishes this fall. But don't call it a sequel to her iconic debut, 'Fear of Flying.'
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In My Own Words: Val Brelinski: Led Zeppelin, or Saving Your Soul?
Brelinski’s debut novel, "The Girl Who Slept with God," is about two sisters exiled to a small house outside Arco, Idaho, by their evangelical Christian parents when the elder sister becomes pregnant.
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The Promised Land: Joshua Cohen
In his latest novel, Cohen structures a modern tale around the fourth book of the Bible, which Cohen describes as a "messy, cultic, slightly insane book about people formation."
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BEA 2015: Anne Flett-Giordano: From Prime Time to Crime Time
The confluence of three disparate elements gave impetus to the writing of Anne Flett-Giordano’s first mystery novel, "Marry, Kiss, Kill" (Prospect Park Books, June).
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BEA 2015: Paolo Bacigalupi: The Future Is Now
The 2009 award-winning bestseller (including a Hugo and a Nebula) "The Windup Girl" (Skyhorse), by Paolo Bacigalupi, is back.
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BEA 2015: Janice Kaplan: The Strength of Gratitude
Last New Year’s Eve, Janice Kaplan, a New York Times bestselling author and former Parade editor-in-chief, “started to wonder what I could do to have a good year ahead.
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BEA 2015: H. S. Cross: An Obsession with Boarding School
Debut novelist H.S. Cross knows the obvious prepublication question about "Wilberforce" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept.), her debut set in St. Stephen’s English boarding school after WWI.
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