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Dec 6, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Emma Copley Eisenberg |Vanessa Chan |Alexandra S. Tanner |Marcela A. Fuentes
Books by Marie-Helene Bertino, Kaveh Akbar, and Emma Copley Eisenberg are among this year’s most celebrated novels Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you, please make a contribution today. One...
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Alexandra S. Tanner |Halle Butler |Sally Rooney |Oyinkan Braithwaite
Men on the verge have dominated literature for decades. Raskalnikov wandered the streets of Moscow, driven to murder by philosophy; Holden Caulfield let us know we’re all goddamn phonies. Gatsby held parties as an act of passive aggression; Humbert Humbert absconded with a young teen. All the while, women protagonists were either absent entirely or supposed to remain relatable.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
itsonlyzach.substack.com | Daniel Lefferts |Adelle Waldman |Alexandra S. Tanner |Zach Wilcha
Whoa. It’s been a minute! I’m caught up in the craziness of Pride season as a brave soldier who works in the LGBTQ+ nonprofit space. For us, the end of May and all of June are the equivalent of Thanksgiving through Christmas for elves. When I’m not out giving talks or participating in some woke advocacy scheme, I’ve been trying to catch up on things at home. As a result, it’s been a month without a newsletter and an ever-growing pile of finished books to write about.
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May 1, 2024 | 
sansabanews.com | Alexandra S. Tanner
Body Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda The Devil and Mrs.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Leanne Toshiko Simpson |Angela Brown |Alexandra S. Tanner |Andrew Boryga
These works of humorous fiction are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Never Been Better”by Leanne Toshiko Simpson A year after discharge from the psych ward, Dee arrives in Turks and Caicos to attend her best friends’ Matt and Misa’s wedding, and to confess feelings for Matt. But disrupting their nuptials would jeopardize the entire support system that holds the trio together, forcing her to choose between love and recovery.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
zip06.com | Alexandra S. Tanner
Worry by Alexandra Tanner Y'all don't need to know what time I went to bed in order to finish this book! This is a hilarious and utterly absorbing dive into the neuroses of two sisters. I felt like a third roommate watching their sisterly spats and dog-owning dramas unfold. If you've ever had a sister, been a sister, or known a sister, this story will find a place in your heart. Abby, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Alexandra S. Tanner |Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Within the first few pages of Alexandra Tanner's dark, funny debut, sisters Poppy and Jules exhibit their capacity to indulge in the titular word. As a verb, it is among their central activities: They interrogate the source of Poppy's hives, the cleanliness of a restaurant, their parents' willingness to subsidize their lives in New York.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Sasha Fletcher |Alexandra S. Tanner
I met Allie Tanner in November of 2016 at the Brooklyn reading series Franklin Park. The first words she ever said to me were “Are you okay?” (I was. I used to call the raffle at Franklin Park, and felt that microphones were for cowards, so I did not use them.)We’ve been together for seven years now, and it has been one of the true blessings of my lifetime to write beside her day in and day out. Of course we were going to talk about her debut novel, Worry, together.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
simonandschuster.com | Helen Laser |Alexandra S. Tanner
About The Book Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Nylon, The Millions, and Debutiful!Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alexandra S. Tanner
What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview 22 Funny Novels March Releases What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview 22 Funny Novels March Releases In "Worry," Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions and maladjustments of adulthood.
