Biography

Hello Beautiful is Ann Napolitano’s fourth novel, published by The Dial Press in March 2023. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction later that year, and Oprah Winfrey chose it as her 100th Book Club selection, both of which accurately describe the novel’s cultural reach and, quietly, its ambitions. This is a book that sets…

Bad Feminist: Essays arrived in August 2014 and announced Roxane Gay as one of the most necessary and readable voices in contemporary cultural criticism. Gay had published fiction before, and her presence in literary circles had built a following, but this collection gathered essays from various publications over several years and delivered them to a…

In February 2007, a memoir arrived in American bookstores that most publishers would have thought unsaleable. Its author was a young Sierra Leonean man in his mid-twenties, writing in his second language about crimes he committed as a child. No American happy ending was promised. No distance was offered between the narrator and his worst…