Lily King

Nov 25, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Danzy Senna |Curtis Sittenfeld |Lily King

For readers of White Oleander by Janet Finch, fans of Carson McCullers or Jane Smiley, Lily King’s Writers and Lovers is a big-hearted story of love and family, loss and grief. When Casey moved to Massachusetts in the summer of 1997, she had no partner, no job, and no clue what to do next. While waiting tables at a restaurant, working on a six-year-old manuscript, and falling in love with two different men, Casey is in crisis mode, and she’s doing her best not to flail.

Mar 4, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Sarah Mathews |Kyle Lucia Wu |C Zhang |Lily King

According to CEO and psychologist Jessica Pryce-Jones, people spend 90,000 hours of their lifetimes at their jobs. Whatever form that profession takes, it’s inevitable that it will coincide with significant individual change. Work forces people to confront obstacles like office politics, autocratic managers, flaky colleagues, and productivity quotas, the tackling of which teaches them about who they are.

Feb 19, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Coco Mellors |Lily King |Meg Wolitzer

Brooding and Books: A #TBR To Last You Through the Winter “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Percy Bysshe Shelley said it best — whether you’ve been braving icy pellets of rain or wiping dirty slush from your favorite boots, we know winter can be a drag. With the warmth of the sun still a few weeks away, you might be feeling a bit of general malaise — all of that leftover teenage angst has to go somewhere, right?

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Virginia Pye |Lily King |Louisa May Alcott |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers

Lily King’sWriters & Lovers is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997, where my own novel takes place a century earlier. It’s a fictional coming-of-age story of a young woman who tries to write her way into adulthood.

Aug 5, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Gabrielle Zevin |Maggie O’Farrell |Lily King

Every so often I like to check back in with my past reading self as a way to gauge who I was then versus who I am now. We all change as we grow older, right? For example, when I was four years old, I would’ve told you my favorite books were Richard Scarry’s “What Do People Do All Day?” and “Goodnight Moon,” by Margaret Wise Brown, while today…Actually, those books still rule, so maybe I haven’t changed that much.