The Artist as a Young Biker Babe
In Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, a motorcyclist-artist-chick revs through the 1970s NYC art world.
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Back in the USSR!
First time novelist Elliott Holt coolly takes on the Cold War, the 1980s, and friendships lost in You Are One of Them.
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Eternal Summer
A group of NYC teens come of age (and come of life) after art camp in Meg Wolitzer’s decade-spanning The Interestings.
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The Bling Ring
Making it rain at the Chinese wedding of the year when Old Money meets modest Money in Kevin Kwan’s debut Crazy Rich Asians.
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She’s a Rainbow
In her memoir Fairyland, Alysia Abbott recounts being raised by her single gay father in 1970s San Francisco.
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What A Boy Wants
Adelle Waldman’s charming debut The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. follows the budding literary life of its title character.
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The Drifters
An aimless 20-something couple hits the road in Matthew Savoca’s I Don’t Know I Said.
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The Cat’s Meow
Bobcat and Other Stories, Rebecca Lee’s collection of smartly absurd realism vignettes set in American academia.
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