An excerpt from Umrigar’s third novel, now available from Harper.

An excerpt from Levine’s new novel, now available from Tonga Books.

A novel that Publishers Weekly says “accomplishes the improbable feat of wringing genuine loveliness from unspeakable horror.”

The author of Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, dishes out tips for attending literary parties.

An excerpt from Nelson’s latest novel, the sequel to Girl.

An interview with the author of the new novel My Hollywood.

Rachel Kramer Bussel wonders whether she’d want to be able know about her future, like the characters in the new YA novel The Future of Us.

You’re looking exceptionally lovely today. Have you lost weight?

No, but you obviously have.

Flatterer.

Your second novel is being widely described as The Scarlet Letter meets The Handmaid’s Tale. How do you feel about such comparisons?

Honored, on the one hand; both are great writers. A little impatient, on the other; such descriptions strike me as reductive and simplistic. Yes, I riffed on Hawthorne’s story, and true, my book shares a theocratic dystopian setting with Ms. Atwood’s, but When She Woke diverges sharply from both books and has its own thematic, stylistic and plot trajectory. I guess I’m a lot like my heroine, Hannah Payne; I don’t like being put into little boxes.

I hear you. I’ve been described variously as a Southern novelist, a political novelist, a dystopian novelist and even a science fiction novelist.

A conversation with Klosterman about writing, reality, and his new novel, The Visible Man.