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The Body Scout, a debut novel by alumnus and adjunct faculty member Lincoln Michel '09, will be released by Orbit Books on September 21, 2021. Read the first chapter of this near-future dystopian tale here.
Something New Under the Sun, the second novel by alumna Alexandra Kleeman '12, will be published by Hogarth Press and released on August 3, 2021.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor and Fiction Concentration Head Victor LaValle about his forthcoming novel Lone Women, how Zoom has changed the classroom dynamic, and how routine can be more important than talent.
HarperCollins India recently announced that their prestigious Fourth Estate Imprint would be publishing a debut novel by alumna Naheed Phiroze Patel '16.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, a novel by Assistant Professor Rivka Galchen, will be released by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on June 8, 2021.
Wild Pets, a debut novel by alumna Amber Medland '15, will be released on July 1, 2021 by Faber & Faber.
"Other Significant Others: A Glossary," a short story by fiction student Gauraa Shekhar, has recently been nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers by Nimrod Journal.
NPR's Book Concierge recently released its list of best books of 2020, naming several titles by School of the Arts alumni and faculty among them.
Adjunct Associate Professor Daphne Merkin's latest novel, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love, has been published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Nicholas Christopher received his BA from Harvard College. He is the author of seventeen books: six novels, The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, The Bestiary, and Tiger Rag; nine books of poetry, On Tour with Rita, A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse, In the Year of the Comet, 5° & Other Poems, The Creation of the Night Sky, Atomic Field: Two Poems, Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004, and On Jupiter Place; a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American…
Alumna Francesca Giacco ’16 recently sold her debut novel, Six Days in Rome, to Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central Publishing at auction. The novel is scheduled for publication in summer 2022.