Mateo Askaripour

Jul 11, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Mateo Askaripour |Isabelle McConville

Dedication to Detail: 5 Questions for Mateo Askaripour Mateo Askaripour (A National Book Foundation 5 under 35 pick) follows up his NYT-bestselling Black Buck with something completely different – a strikingly unique dystopian science fiction novel steeped in political intrigue.

Jul 9, 2024 | time.com | Mateo Askaripour

IdeasJuly 9, 2024 7:00 AM EDTAskaripour is a New York Times bestselling author. His first novel, Black Buck, takes on racism in corporate America with humor and wit. Most recently, he was named as a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” prize. This Great Hemisphere is his second novel. The New York City subway, 2019. An older man walks on along with a woman I assume to be his wife. He turns to her, asks where she’d like to sit.

Jul 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mateo Askaripour

Credit - Getty ImagesThe New York City subway, 2019. An older man walks on along with a woman I assume to be his wife. He turns to her, asks where she’d like to sit. Awaiting her answer, he extends his arm, releases his finger, and levels it directly at my stomach, indicating that the space I occupy doesn’t contain a presence, but an absence. Seated and confused, I’d wondered if the man saw me, or if, by some strange, supernatural alchemy, I was literally see-through to his eyes.

Jul 8, 2024 | lithub.com | Mateo Askaripour

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues belowLet’s play a game. When I say an author’s name, you spit out the genre most associated with them. Stephen King. Horror. Octavia Butler. Speculative. Agatha Christie. Mystery. The list goes on and on, because it’s a fact that many authors have found it advantageous, not to mention financially lucrative, to carve out a lane for themselves.

Jul 6, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Mateo Askaripour |Katherine Wood |Bruce Borgos

The book is in stores on Tuesday, July 9th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3PkfY7FDespite the odds, Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life—school, university, and now a highly sought-after apprenticeship with the Northwestern Hemisphere’s premier inventor, a non-invisible man belonging to the Dominant Population who is as eccentric as he is enigmatic.