Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. In An Untamed State, she delivers an assured debut about a woman kidnapped for ransom, her captivity as her father refuses to pay and her husband fights for her release over thirteen days, and her struggle to come to terms with the ordeal in its aftermath. Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her an enthusiastic audience. For those who have read it, what did you think? This is Gay’s debut novel and there are definitely some trigger warnings for this book. It’s harrowing and emotional as it chronicles a woman’s kidnapping, rescue, and recovery. This is a highly recommended piece of contemporary fiction.
With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y’all beg for more.Īn Untamed State by Roxane Gay is $2.99 at Amazon! It may be a previous KDD that’s about to expire.
But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him–and discovers that David’s own fate could very well be to destroy Earth. Just when life can’t get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she’s charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper’s least favorite person.
She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts.
But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper’s destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. Also, do yourself a favor and check out our podcast episode with Rachel. It’s giving me some heavy Buffy vibes, but with Southern debutantes.
(e.g., rhyme was often a dominant in English poetry until the 20th century and the advent of free verse now the situation is mostly the opposite.) (See also this.Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins is $2.99! This is the first book in a series of the same name. “ Dominant” is a term I stole from the Russian Formalists it essentially means a feature or aspect of a text that most people feel that the text, to be valid, should demonstrate or otherwise include. So I ended up proposing twelve dominants that I’d argue govern the current indy lit scene (at least as best as I can see things from where I’m sitting-Chicago, USA, 2011). I “narrowed that down” to indy lit (small press publishing, whatever you want to call it)-still an impossibly huge topic, of course. I was asked over the summer to contribute a critical article to the online UK journal Beat the Dust they wanted me to write on the current state of US literature. I’m not going to write about that piece I read on another blog, another online magazine, that article that essay that story that tweet that video that everyone is talking and how can anyone figure out anything if they still have those 35 tabs open and I suppose that’s called an experience of Life. I’m not going to write another blog after this one. I’m not going to blog about author news or how publishing houses are hemorrhaging money or how eBooks are stabbing people in dark alleys or about how eBooks are Jesus or how eBooks are just Books with a little ‘e’ hanging on. I don’t like typing I read I saw or saying my endless opinion of the weird book I read, the thing it was like, a metaphor a simile and I have almost grown to hate the internet after 15 years, how I know all the office workers have 35 tabs open and are watching a video and reading an article at the same time and mentally composing a tweet about it or wondering about how Roxane Gay is going to say it better and Blake Butler is going to say it weirder or if we’re supposed to like or hate Tao Lin right now or whether or not the novel is living or dead or who cares or which author we should interview or if that galley of that novel is worth reading or reviewing and how is it that those publishers still send out all those galleys to all those people who ignore all those galleys, and that’s called work and earning a living, well I’m not going to write any more blogs like that. Click the image to read the story on Electric Literature. This post is a permutation of her story, My Last Story, which was, in fact, not her last story.