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I've just signed as a client of Willenfield Literary Agency. I'll be working on my debut novel with the brilliant Akin Akinwumi, who is not just a keen literary mind and agent, but also has great taste in music. When I first met him several years...

Jakob Guanzon's debut novel Abundance is out now—and what a debut it is! Organized by the amount of money in the main character's pocket, the book is tightly wound and propulsive from start to finish. And the bravura Walmart scene near the end of the book is...

After a long November I had a week-long residency in Door County, WI, thanks to the fine folks at Write On, Door County. The weather was strangely crisp—no snow—as if the whole place had been preserved in an icebox. That meant I had the run of...

Anna Burns has won the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award for Milkman. This comes after she won the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize.   The longlist is nominated by librarians from all across the world. The judges...