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Articles by Norah Labiner
15 Small Press Titles You Should Be Reading This Fall
Something I have been thinking about a lot—and talking to other industry peers with—is what has happened to media, and specifically books coverage. This is why even if you have just five dollars, you should consider donating to Electric Literature, who is one of the few remaining outlets specifically devoted to literature. Many of the books on this list reflect that same ethos: doing the work when it seems like the larger world might not care.
Norah Labiner’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Morocco
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Norah Labiner’s novel Morocco is a compelling modern reimagining of Washington Square by Henry James.
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin. Putnam, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-54521-8 Benjamin (The Immortalists) blends speculative fiction and romance in this sui generis story of an erstwhile couple who discover a parallel universe. Laurel Salter, a mycologist, divorces her physicist husband, Eli, leaves her position at U-W Madison, and takes a job as a dishwasher at the remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica, determined to get as far away as possible from her life.
Luna, Phoenix, Queen
Julie Orringer. Knopf, $30 (288p) ISBN 979-8-217-20788-6 Orringer (The Flight Portfolio) plumbs the depths of Alzheimer’s, betrayal, and plagiarism in her exquisite latest. Dava Pennington, a middle-aged professor of English literature, teaches at an unnamed university in the Midwest with her novelist husband, Barr. Dava feels adrift when she starts having memory problems (“A fog-laced wind seemed to blow through her brain...
Country People by Daniel Mason
Daniel Mason. Random House, $30 (320p) ISBN 979-8-217-19745-3 Mason follows up North Woods with an exquisite and often hilarious tale of rural life in western New England. It centers on a California family who spends a year in Vermont, where the wife, Kate Petrosian, a Milton scholar, has accepted a one-year visiting professorship. Along for the ride are her children, 12 and nine, and her husband, floundering PhD student Miles Krzelewski, who has made zero progress on his literature dissertation.
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