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Nov 22, 2024 | 
nexojornal.com.br | Leila Mottley
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Leila Mottley
For Marie Claire's Makers Issue, author and poet Leila Mottley writes about the power of the ocean. Mottley's debut poetry collection, woke up no light, hits shelves April 16. The Pacific waves keep rolling. Foam of the mouth, thunder, split up a child from her mother. This is what geography does. A salt history, a global Great Migration we are all still too terrified to be in awe of. I don't like the ocean, but I love the water. I like still. I like quiet with a drip drip and no movement.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
marieclaire.com | Leila Mottley
For Marie Claire's Makers Issue, author and poet Leila Mottley writes about the power of the ocean. The Pacific waves keep rolling. Foam of the mouth, thunder, split up a child from her mother. This is what geography does. A salt history, a global Great Migration we are all still too terrified to be in awe of. I don't like the ocean, but I love the water. I like still. I like quiet with a drip drip and no movement. Stay where I grew up, on my back door step. This family has moved too much.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Leila Mottley |Brandon Yu
Oakland poet and novelist Leila Mottley. Photo: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco ChronicleAfter her life completely changed, Leila Mottley had to relearn how to write. Following the runaway success of her bestselling 2022 debut novel, “Nightcrawling,” the Oakland author was faced with the realities of becoming a young literary star: lots of press, lots of time on the road, and suddenly, a lot of anxiety over knowing what she wrote could be read by millions.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
shepherd.com | Ross Gay |Leila Mottley |Sequoia Nagamatsu |Monna Wong
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…Sometimes you read a book that creates aseismic shift in how you view the world—The Book of Delights is thatbook. Ross Gay shines light on wonderful little things in a poetic, deep, andintrospective way that doesn't sidestep the fact that life is hard and uglysometimes.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
vocesdecuenca.com | Leila Mottley
*Juan Clemente GómezLITERATURA INFANTILLa ratoncita más chic de París.- Megan Hess .- Megan Hess.-Editorial EdebéLa adorable Clarís sueña con mudarse a París para perseguir sus sueños como diseñadora de moda.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
preview.houstonchronicle.com | Don Winslow |Jeff Sharlet |Leila Mottley |Ehigbor Okosun
Author Don Winslow. Photo: Michael LionstarThis week, Inprint Houston hosts Booker Prize nominee Leila Mottley and Don Winslow will discuss his newest book at Murder By The Book. MONDAYDina Nayeri and Jeff Sharlet: Authors will be in conversation with John Kenyon to discuss "Who Gets Believed?" and "The Undertow" via Zoom. This event is hosted in partnership with Brazos Bookstore, Prairie Lights and Elliott Bay Book Co.7 p.m., brazosbookstore.comAuthor Jeff Sharlet.
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Apr 11, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Leila Mottley
English0593312600NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
chicklit.nl | Leila Mottley
Als Kiara's vader overlijdt en haar moeder kort daarna in de problemen komt en achter de tralies verdwijnt staan zij en haar oudere broer Marcus er alleen voor. Marcus laat al snel zijn baantje voor wat het is en probeert zijn droom, een beroemde rapper worden, na te jagen. Om de huur te kunnen betalen gaat Kiara, nog maar zeventien jaar oud, (gedwongen) in de prostitutie werken. Maar dan raakt ze verwikkeld in een groot schandaal binnen het Oakland Police departement.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
itsonlyzach.substack.com | Alison Espach |Leila Mottley |Lydia Millet |Zach Wilcha
Despite what my most recent Myers Briggs results indicate, I’m not always great at judging. I am, however, aces when it comes to prejudging. So, it came as a pretty significant surprise to me how much I enjoyed the books in the newsletter this week based on their descriptions, which didn’t sound up the alley where I’m currently reading. Much like in the previous episodes of this newsletter, I read these selections as part of the imminent Tournament of Books from The Morning News.
