Bookshelf

Past readers

For our literary launch parties and author showcases, DEBUT LIT selects first (and sometime second) books with literary merit from authors who deserve to be rock stars.

 

Daphne Beal, In the Land of No Right Angles (Anchor Books)
Brooke Berman, No Place Like Home (Random House) 

Mark Cooper, author of the book-length comic, The Inspectre

Tony DuShane, Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (Soft Skull Press)

Laurie Frankel, The Atlas of Love (St. Martin’s Press)

Peg Kingman, Original Sins and Not Yet Drown’d (W.W. Norton)
Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me and best-selling The God of Animals (Scribner)

Phil LaMarche, American Youth (Random House)

Wendy Lee, Happy Family (Black Cat, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic)

Fiona Maazel, Last Last Chance (Picador)

Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (W.W. Norton)

Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch (Three Rivers Press)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, WENCH (HarperCollins)

Andy Raskin, The Ramen King and I (Gotham Books, a Penguin imprint)
Shannan Rouss, Easy for You: Stories (Simon & Schuster)
Matt Stewart, The French Revolution (Soft Skull Press)

Christian TeBordo, The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck (Spuyten Duyvil Press)

Urban Waite, The Terror of Living (Little, Brown)

Josh Weil, The New Valley (Grove Press)

Sung J. Woo, Everything Asian (St. Martin’s Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books)

Alexi Zentner, Touch (W.W. Norton)

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