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Christopher Bollen is a novelist. Writer in New York. My latest novel A BEAUTIFUL CRIME is now out in paperback from Harper. For more frequent posts, find me on Instagram at @christbollen

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Book Cover for: Pariah, Dan Fesperman

Pariah

Dan Fesperman
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Dan Fesperman, wielding a sharp eye for atmospheric detail and a finely tuned ear for comic relief, has proved to be one of the genre’s most exciting contemporary writers ... Deliciously fun ...

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lie with Me, Philippe Besson

Lie with Me

Philippe Besson
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Two novels are out this week for which I was lucky enough to be asked to give a quote. BOTH are exceptional and stomped all over my heart. LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson and translated by… https://t.co/BGCpMBxHSu

Paperback, 2020

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: An Honest Living, Dwyer Murphy

An Honest Living

Dwyer Murphy
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Murphy’s hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite. It’s a landscape of reeking garbage, of salty rain sweeping off the ocean, of Midtown towers that look “ghostly like a mountain range,” ... few recent books have conjured [New York] so vividly.

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel, Edmund White

A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel

Edmund White
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Just finished reading this wicked triumph by my dearest Ed White. The guru at his best: “I felt like I was watching a pornographic film directed by Caravaggio.” A Previous Life is out in January. @ Manhattan, New York https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWZdB3F8AB/?utm_medium=twitter

Paperback, 2023

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Luster, Raven Leilani

Luster

Raven Leilani
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In her radiant debut novel "Luster," the author teeters on transgression. Raven Leilani Wants to Write About Sex in a Way “That’s Ugly” https://t.co/IGSn7uLLSG via @Interview Magazine @RavenLeilani

Paperback, 2021

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ author Kevin Kwan on what to read next https://t.co/Ib4wmCQ9bk via @TODAYshow

Paperback, 2014

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Lightness, Emily Temple

The Lightness

Emily Temple
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Congratulations to @knownemily on her debut novel The Lightness. Out now. https://t.co/cuumZFMDWm

Paperback, 2021

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Blizzard Party, Jack Livings

The Blizzard Party

Jack Livings
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Five Unlikely Things that Inspired Jack Livings’s Debut Novel, <i>The Blizzard Party</i> https://t.co/AAGHp6UGEU via @Interview Magazine @jack_livings

Paperback, 2022

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Alexander Chee

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee
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The poet and author has dug into his past and future with a raw, literary collection of essays titled How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. The time for queer lit is now: a conversation with Alexander Chee https://t.co/EYn8tWafwY via @Interview Magazine @alexanderchee

Paperback, 2018

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book