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The problems in the sub-continent are common: gender discrimination, corruption, poverty. I’m not interested in writing these exotic stories about beautiful immigrants with bare-shouldered women in glamorous saris on the covers. So it’s helpful to get together with others who are writing the gritty stories.
THE SUNDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: Dipika Mukherjee
Lit/Rant's Best of 2014
This is always hard, because each book fills a book-sized gap in the world. Nonetheless, it's that time of year for making lists, and here's mine:
Best Fiction of 2014
(Bear in mind that The Bone Clocks, Station Eleven, and The Laughing Monsters are still in my queue.)
Euphoria by Lily King.
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber.
Cementville by Paulette Livers.
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay.
Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole.
A Curse on Dostoevsky by Atiq Rahimi.
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li.
The Painter by Peter Heller.
The Antiquarian by Gustavo Faveron Patriau.
The Monster's Wife by Kate Horsley.
Best Science Fiction & Horror of 2014
(Bear in mind that I haven't read John Scalzi's Lock In yet, and I'm eliminating all Stephen King novels from competition because he doesn't need any help from anybody.)
Afterparty by Darryl Gregory
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes.
Parasite by Mira Grant
The Happier Dead by Ivo Stourton
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.
Artful by Peter David
The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohoe.
Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll.
The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood.
Best Nonfiction of 2014
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of Modern Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist.
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Ajan Sundaram.
Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism by Jennifer Percy.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir by Charles M. Blow.
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart.
Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Angel N.
Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East by Nathan Deuel.
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher.
Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves.
Paulette Livers' novel, Cementville, shortlisted for Chicago Writers Association's novel of the year
Author Paulette Livers’ debut novel Cementville has been shortlisted for the Chicago Writers Association’s novel of the year and the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize.
Livers has been lauded by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Richard Bausch and others for her “unflinching” storytelling ability and “earnest portrait of the homefront”. Booklist even went as far to compare…
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Tuesday New Release Day
Out this week: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt; The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant; Cementville by Paulette Livers; Damage Control by Amber Dermont;Blood Will Out by Up in the Air author Walter Kirn; Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler; and The Haunted Life, a new collection of early writing by Jack Kerouac.
