Simpson Literary Project

Darius Strauss describes his work as a hybrid: half memoir and half make-believe sparked by an innocent dream of the 50s and Lucille Ball. How would you describe this 2021 #JoyceCarolOates Longlist Finalist? . . . .... #SimpsonLiteraryProject #JoyceCarolOates #JoyceCarolOatesPrize #DariusStrauss #TheQueenofTuesday #Fiction #Storytelling #Readers #Reading #Writers #Writing #WritersCommunity #ReadersCommunity #ReadersofIG #WritersofIG #Bookstagram #Books See more

Happy birthday, Toni Morrison . . . .... . #bookstagram #simpsonliteraryproject #tonimorrison #birthday #literature #quotes #quotestoliveby #quotestagram See more

The @nytimes calls Hector Tobar’s The Last Great Road Bum", "[A] hybrid narrative of travel, rebellion, swagger, restlessness and indignation... Some younger writers and readers may not realize how big a pile of yellowing paper a life of writing could amount to in a world before computers and random-access memory. In Joe Sanderson’s case it was monumental, an enormous task to sort through, and Tobar became a ruminative Rumpelstiltskin, spinning this straw into gold. This hybrid blurs the line between fiction in nonfiction that will engage readers for years to come. . . . #SimpsonLiteraryProject #JoyceCarolOates #JoyceCarolOatesPrize #HectorTobar #TheLastGreatRoadBum #Fiction #Storytelling #Readers #Reading #Writers #Writing #WritersCommunity #ReadersCommunity

From award-winning author Author Lysley Tenorio comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls home. The New York Times writes that Tenorio’s novel is an affecting portrayal of just how potently a parent can shape the expectations of her child...His story is a tribute to the extreme inner strength it takes to make any life decision look like fate. Saint Mar...y's MFA in Creative Writing . . . . . . . . #SimpsonLiteraryProject #JoyceCarolOates #JoyceCarolOatesPrize #LysleyTenorio #TheSonOfGoodFortune #Fiction #Storytelling #Readers #Reading #Writers #Writing #WritersCommunity #ReadersCommunity See more

In #IvyPochoda's fourth novel "These Women", readers are asked to consider one of the themes that unites her books: Who are the people we overlook, ignore, don't see, dismiss in the world? This novel subverts the genre of the LA thriller, and is the feminist answer to James Elroy. .. . . .... #SimpsonLiteraryProject #JoyceCarolOates #JoyceCarolOatesPrize #IvyPachoda #TheseWomen #Fiction #Storytelling #Readers #Reading #Writers #Writing #WritersCommunity #ReadersCommunity See more

NPR describes #JennyOffill’s Weather as a novel that swirls around amber waves of dread. Offill's signature achievement here is to capture the angst specific to our particular moment in time the rising tide of anxiety, especially in New York City, about a world threatened by climate change and the ascension of right-wing strongmen, which deepens after the 2016 election. This at times existential novel contains lessons for readers now, and for years to come. . . . .... #SimpsonLiteraryProject #JoyceCarolOates #JoyceCarolOatesPrize #JennyOffill #Weather #Fiction #Storytelling #Readers #Reading #Writers #Writing #NPR #WritersCommunity #ReadersCommunity See more