Debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann is the author of The Beheading Game, released in March 2026, by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House. Lehmann is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from …
Debut novelist Sharon White is the author of Minato Sketches, winner of the 2023 Rosemary Daniello Prize. The book, in which Gigi, an American art historian recovering from a stroke, spends the summer teaching art history at a university in …
Noir, the English-language translation of the French word black, is a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity. Noir author James Ellroy says: “The thrill of noir is the rush of moral forfeit and …
In Dayswork, new from W. W. Norton in 2023, married couple Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have created what might be called a novel, or a biography, or a literary analysis, or even a pandemic diary. The book follows a …
In Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the 2024 Donald L. Jordan Literary Prize from Columbus State University Press, debut novelist Ellen Birkett Morris explores the question of what happens when the life you get, isn’t the life you’d hope …