3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1825+ words) First Summer by Ekin Oklap is a tender, atmospheric coming of age that starts with a simple premise: a new girl moves in across the street, completely upending the narrator’s life. Clara and the narrator melt towards each other during…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (319+ words) Friedlander is a writer and graphic designer from Kansas who now lives in New York. She is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Sensual World will be published by Catapult on March 23, 2027. Debutiful…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) We asked Bazzett to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers can get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1596+ words) Kitten by Stacey Yu, one of Debutiful’s Most Anticipated Debut Books, follows protagonist Katie, who is fresh out of university and desperate not to enter the adult world quite yet. When she goes to the Hamptons with her boyfriend James,…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (766+ words) What happens when one day, one impulsive decision, one declined call is what defines the rest of your life? Alicia Upano‘s debut is a love story, it’s a natural disaster novel, and most of all, it’s a haunting reckoning…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (486+ words) The following is our exchange, conducted by email and edited and condensed for clarity. Doug Jones: This novel is a feat of the imagination. The cat narrator is clever, uproarious at times, is knowledgeable about music, pop culture, art, film,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1080+ words) Jorge Estupinan: I just wanted to start by saying, I love the cover. I love the boots, your Uncle with the socks on, the drink on the table, and his hand on your arm. It feels real to me. Was…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (443+ words) To Stay, To Stay, To Stay will be published on October 27, 2026, by McSweeney’s and is available for preorder now. Halliday is a Pushcart Prize–winning writer with fiction published in Ploughshares, One Story, and West Branch, among other journals. Her…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (558+ words) Their debut story collection All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town. It will be published by One World on June 23, 2026 and is available…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (317+ words) Yesena Barragan is a historian of the nineteenth-century Americas and Atlantic and Pacific worlds, focusing on race, slavery, and emancipation. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American History from Columbia University and is now an Associate Professor of History at…...