Melissa Broder

Aug 6, 2024 | lithub.com | Melissa Broder

The Princess of 72nd Street, first published by New Directions in 1979 when Elaine Kraf was forty-three, is an avant-garde tale of one woman’s seventh manic episode—a period of euphoria and hallucination, which she calls her “radiance”—and her desire to love from there, write from there, and perhaps, least tenably, live from there.

Jul 30, 2024 | waterstones.com | Melissa Broder |Katy Wheatley

‘Riotously original ... A triumph’ NEW YORK TIMES‘A journey unlike any you've read before’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH‘Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense’ GLAMOURThe most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her.

May 29, 2024 | bonappetit.com | Melissa Broder

When my father was taken to the ICU in December 2020 following a critical injury in a car accident, he was still talking. “Don’t get COVID!” said my sister on the phone. “COVID is the one thing I don’t have,” he told her. The following evening he expressed his annoyance at the Hippocratic oath. “One of the nurses thought I was aspirating. Took away my dinner.”It turned out that he was aspirating.

May 1, 2024 | indiebound.org | Melissa Broder |Nicole Chung

May 2024 Indie Next List The Ministry of Time: A Novel Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster) Buy “The Ministry of Time is a rare story that mashes up favorite time-worn tropes — from Star Trek to spy thrillers to Victorian romances — in a crucible of colonialism and the pitfalls of diversity in a near-future London.

Apr 17, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Ann Napolitano |Mona Awad |Melissa Broder

New in Paperback May 2024Even though there were plenty of paperbacks to keep those book appetites satiated in April, if you’re like us, your TBR piles might be looking a little light by now. In between firing up the grill and making Memorial Day plans this May, we’ve got a brand new round up of our favorite books now out in paperback.