Results for "Blackburn, Venita"

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books and The Millions"Told by machines from the future, Blackburn’s idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshly devastating as they come." —The New York Times Boo... Read More about Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel

A Paris Review Staff Pick and an Amazon Editors' Pick. Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize."Bold, witty, ominous and vulnerable . . . How to Wrestle a Girl shines i... Read More about How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books and The Millions"Told by machines from the future, Blackburn’s idiosyncratic grief novel is as freshly devastating as they come." —The New York Times Boo... Read More about Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel

2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles  Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the ... Read More about Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)