Debut Day! Featuring Ada Calhoun ('Crush'), Maggie Sue ('The Blob'), Alejandro Heredia ('Loca'), Kaveh Akbar ('Martyr!'), and Erin Crosby Eckstine ('Junie')
In writer Ada Calhoun's debut novel, a happily-married woman finds herself with a new crush after her husband suggests they open their marriage. Calhoun joins us to discuss Crush: A Novel, as part of our day celebrating debut novels.
A new novel follows a young woman named Vi who finds a strange blob, and manages to shape it into her dream man with unforeseen consequences. Author Maggie Su discusses her book, Blob: A Love Story, as part of our Debut Day celebrating debut novels.
In Loca, best friends Sal and Charo navigate life, love, and migration in 1990s New York. Author Alejandro Heredia discusses his debut novel, exploring identity, friendship, and the complexities of growing up in a new city.
In the new novel Junie, a young enslaved woman, consumed by grief at her sister's death, manages to wake her sister's ghost from the grave. The ghost pushes Junie to discover terrifying secrets about life on the Bellereine Plantation in Alabama. Author Erin Crosby Eckstine discusses her debut novel as part of our Debut Day celebrating debut novels.
[REBROADCAST FROM January 23, 2024] In the debut novel from poet Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!, a man who has lost everything becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a martyr, until he meets a dying woman who has decided to spend her final days talking to people at the Brooklyn Museum.
