TODAY: In 1947, Kenneth Arnold claims to have seen nine flying saucers near Mount Rainier, Washington, driving enthusiasm for science fiction literature.
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“They had come from the hills behind the compound, south of the tennis court, slipping through a gap in the fence in the early morning.” Read from Aisling Rawle’s debut novel, The Compound. | Lit Hub Fiction
IF THE BIG CHILL WERE A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships. Read Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay.
“I think it’s interesting that to this day, a lot of mainstream understandings of the causes of this twinned economic and ecological collapse, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drought, omit colonial violence.” Anna Marie Cain interviews Karen Russell. | Los Angeles Review of Books
