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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. 

The Changing of Keys, a debut novel from alumna Carolyn Jack ’16, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2024. 

Friend of the Pod, a new novella from Associate Professor Sam Lipsyte, is out now from Picture Books, an imprint dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists. The series, conceived by Emma Cline ’13, author of Daddy (Random House, 2020) and The Girls (Random House, 2016), pairs each writer with an artist.

The Confessions of Matthew Strong, a work of historical fiction by alumnus Ousmane K. Power-Greene ’21, is out next week from Other Press. 

Alumni Daphne Palasi Andreades ’19 and Jessamine Chan ’12 are both recognized on the shortlist for the 2022 First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction.

Past Lives is an interview series with School of the Arts Writing faculty, students, and alumni who began their professional lives on different career paths. Here, we talk to Associate Professor, Head of Fiction, and Writing alumna Rivka Galchen '06 about her journey into and out of medicine, kooky scientists, and raising the fictional stakes.

Circa, recently published by Mariner Books, is the second novel from alumna Devi S. Laskar ’96.

The debut novel of poet, translator, and alumna E.J. Koh ’13 will be published by Tin House Books, arriving in summer/fall 2023.

Flight by Professor and alumna Lynn Steger Strong '14 will be published by HarperCollins this November. The book is now available for pre-order.