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Tag Archives: fall fiction
Fall Fiction: Ian McEwan
We’re adding another big name to our most anticipated releases calendar: Ian McEwan will return with Sweet Tooth (Nan Talese) on November 13. (In the US, at least—the UK pub date is August.) Set in 1972, the book stars an … Continue reading
Fall fiction: Tom Wolfe goes ‘Back to Blood’
It’s been a long wait for Tom Wolfe fans, but on October 23, 2012, Little, Brown will publish Back to Blood, a novel about race relations in Miami that he reportedly sold for $7 million on a 28-page proposal. We … Continue reading
Fall fiction: Jamaica Kincaid
It has been 10 years since Jamaica Kincaid’s last novel, but on September 4, 2012, she’ll be back with a slender book about a family in crisis, See Now Then (FSG). Kincaid, who was born in Antigua, makes several nods to … Continue reading
Zadie Smith’s ‘NW’ out in September
Does anyone write about contemporary London better than Zadie Smith? The brilliant writer’s new novel, NW (Penguin Press), follows four siblings who made it out of the grim housing estate they were born into, only to be sucked back in when a … Continue reading
Junot Diaz returns in September
Big news for lovers of literary fiction this morning: author Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), will publish a collection of stories with Riverhead Books on September 11, … Continue reading
The hottest novels for fall 2010
While many of us think of the summer months as prime reading season, publishers tend to save plenty of their sure-to-be fiction hits for fall. And this year’s crop of late 2010 novels is certainly no different. Our September issue … Continue reading
Inside the interview: Jonathan Franzen
BookPage contributor Alden Mudge talked to Jonathan Franzen about his new novel, Freedom, in an interview scheduled for our September issue. As we count down the days until the novel’s August 31 release, take a sneak peek at their conversation—and find … Continue reading
Getting into 'Under the Dome'
As a child I stole my mom’s Stephen King novels from her bedside table (nothing like the lure of the forbidden!) and continued to read him through my teens. Over the last few years I’ve been a more sporadic King … Continue reading
In case you hadn't heard . . .
The US/UK jackets for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol were released today. What do you think? Will you be scouring the cover for “clues” to the book’s content, or are you happy to wait until the novel’s release? For those … Continue reading
Angels from demons
From vamps and witches to angels, by way of Jesus. That unusual path maps Anne Rice’s fictional journey. The Vampire Chronicles author will publish Angel Time: Songs of the Seraphim (Knopf) on October 29. In Angel Time, the first in … Continue reading
Wild for Dave Eggers
Another book talked up during one of Books-A-Million’s publisher-buyer meetings: The last-minute addition to the McSweeney’s fall list of an adult novel based on Where the Wild Things Are, titled simply, Wild Things (October). The author? Dave Eggers, who adapted … Continue reading
Fall Fiction: Diana Gabaldon
The New York Times may be bemoaning the state of publishing/bookselling, but there’s a strong fall shaping up, with the return of many favorite authors. We’ve already posted about Stephen King, Pat Conroy, Dan Brown, Barbara Kingsolver and A.S. Byatt. … Continue reading
