If a story's beginning looks at its reflection in a room made of mirrors, does it see its own beginning-self reflected back? Or is the reflection actually the story's ending? Hamish Hamilton, 2016 This is the kind of question that I can imagine keeps Jay Hosking up late
How many times have I fallen for this trick? A Stephen King novel opens with a vividly sketched scene, of ordinary and likeable people going about the business of their everyday lives, when disaster strikes, and someone dies. Gallery Books - S&S, 2016 Mr. Mercedes is no different.
What Jane Ozkowski captures beautifully in Watching Traffic is the very sensation embodied in the debut novel's title: Emily is overwhelmed by motion even while in a state of stillness. Groundwood Books, 2016 It's the summer after high-school gradulation, and Emily is working at a catering company, making egg-salad sandwiches and
"My main career goal has been to get to go to work every day on something that I'm proud of, with a bunch of people I really like and respect, who make me laugh." Grand Central Publishing - Hachette, 2016 This is Jessi Klein, interviewed by Cosmo, for
"It's about being an explorer, a treasure-hunter." Sue Finlay is still passionate about her work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, just as she was in 1957, when she put her love of numbers to work. (See video here.) She speaks about the early days spent with a Friedan calculator and a
