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In Times to Come, a third novel from alumnus Kristopher Jansma ’06, has been acquired by Ecco for publication next year. 

Here, we talk to Fiction student Emily Johnson about the joys of phone banking, grassroots literary readings, and the alchemy of good fiction.

Alumna Sasha Wolff ’17 is a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award for her manuscript, The Boy Bandit

Both The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Adjunct Assistant Professor Omer Friedlander and The Memory Monster, written by Yishai Sarid and translated from the Hebrew by alumna Yardenne Greenspan '12, are among the seven titles on the shortlist for the 2022/23 Wingate Literary Prize. 

This March, Lone Women, the newest novel by Associate Professor Victor LaValle ’98, will be released from One World. 

Fuccboi, a debut novel from Sean Thor Conroe ’21, is now out in paperback from Back Bay Books.

The Sense of Wonder, the latest novel by Assistant Professor Matthew Salesses, is out now from Little, Brown.

Thirst for Salt, a debut novel from Adjunct Associate Professor Madelaine Lucas ’19, is forthcoming from Tin House in March of this year. 

The School of the Arts Professor has published back-to-back works of fiction this fall.

By Eve Glasberg
December 02, 2022

Nights of Plague was well underway when COVID struck, but the pandemic influenced the book all the same.

No One Left to Come Looking for You, the latest novel from Associate Professor Sam Lipsyte, will be released early next month by Simon & Schuster. 

Our Country Friends, by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, is among the titles shortlisted for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.