Acclaimed author Weike Wang’s brand-new novel Rental House follows Keru and Nate, a couple grappling with mid-life, marriage and complicated family ties. Readers follow along with Keru and Nate on two vacations at different points in their marriage — if you think your family is complicated, read this book. Weike joined blog writer Isabelle McConville […]
Daniel Mason’s North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants both human and not) and endures natural and human history. Mason joins us to talk about how he connected with his setting, writing a novel covering a large timespan, playing with form and more. The […]
The author talks about how she set out to write a story of a family — and discovered she’d created a novel about our obsession with money and inheritance.
As part of our celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Discover Great New Writers, Elliott Holt looks back at an early selection: Jonathan Franzen’s earthquake thriller-meets-love-story.
What’s the most common element in the universe? If you paid attention in school, you might answer hydrogen, but you’d be wrong. The most common element in the universe is hype, and it’s something we will never run out of. Millions of years after mankind goes extinct, an alien species visiting the dead planet Earth […]