Elizabeth Hand
Writer at Freelance
Author, Critic, Old Punk; Faculty Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing
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1 month ago |
crimereads.com | Laura Leffler |Steve Martin |Xochitl Gonzales |Elizabeth Hand
When I started writing my debut thriller, Tell Them You Lied, I didn’t set out to write an art historical crime novel. It begins in Brooklyn on the morning of 9/11, which in my mind is not history but memory. I was a recent college graduate and newbie New Yorker on that day, zombie-walking the stunned streets, inhaling the fumes, and taking photographs. But memory is reliably unreliable, and to write the story I wanted to write, I had to do research too.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Elizabeth Hand
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,” according to the Biblical proverb. That reference is more to reputation than anything, but what if a name truly did determine the course of a life? That is the premise of Florence Knapp’s dazzling first novel, which follows alternating narratives, each determined by the protagonist’s name. The brief prologue is set in 1987. Cora Atkin has just given birth to her second child, a boy. His sister, 9-year-old Maia, wants to call him Bear.
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Feb 7, 2025 |
washingtonpost.com | Elizabeth Hand
The best way — perhaps the only way — to read Lucy Rose’s beautiful, terrifying first novel, “The Lamb,” is as a modern fairy tale. Still, anyone expecting the anodyne comforts and familiar magical-realist trappings associated with that genre will be disappointed, if not outright horrified, by the novel. Despite its contemporary setting, Rose’s story seems drawn directly from those collected by the Brothers Grimm.
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Feb 2, 2025 |
pressherald.com | Elizabeth Hand
The meet-cute that opens “Blob,” Maggie Su’s offbeat debut novel, takes place outside a gay bar called the Back Door. The narrator, Vi, has been a regular for months, as she tries to get over a breakup with her longtime boyfriend. Tonight, her attention is drawn to a pair of beady eyes. As she looks closer, she realizes they don’t come from a human but stare at her from a “beige gelatin splotch” next to a trash can.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
fantasy-hive.co.uk | Stephanie Burgis |Stark Holborn |Ed Crocker |Elizabeth Hand
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