ALL'S WELL was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. It is currently being optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. Her second novel, BUNNY, was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, and won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award.

13 WAYS won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Read from Mona Awad’s new novel, Bunny.Mona Awad is the author of BUNNY, ALL'S WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL.What David Bowie borrowed from William Burroughs.| The AtlanticĪlso on Lit Hub: On Alabama’s dark history of brutalizing black women’s bodies An argument for why Shakespearean plays represent the efforts of multiple playwrights and actors, not just one man alone.A timeline charts the tumultuous rise and fall of the Barnes & Noble bookselling empire.“It wasn’t a foreign notion that if you had stripped people of something you might actually owe them something”: Five years after the publication of “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits this debate with David Remnick.“ The wellness industry is the diet industry, and the diet industry is a function of the patriarchal beauty standard.” Jessica Knoll is well and truly over “wellness.” | The New York Times.“To see myself eloquently expressed in a piece of writing we were required to read would have been the stuff of dreams.” Tochi Onyebuchi on the importance of inclusive high school reading lists.Kristen Arnett, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and more recommend summer itineraries inspired by their novels.How can we not ask masculinity to change when, within it, we have become so wounded?” Ocean Vuong on masculinity and humanity.

But all I heard, all I still hear, is No human.

John Domini recommends five great novels of Italian-American immigration, fro m Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim to Don DeLillo’s Underworld.

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