iRead New Writers

Carrie La Seur, an energy and environmental lawyer in Billings, Montana, reads from and discusses her remarkable debut novel The Home Place. A mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, The Home Place follows a successful lawyer as she is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister’s death.

Mira Jacob reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Spanning India in the 1970s to New Mexico in the ’80s to Seattle in the ’90s, Jacob’s story is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past.

Anton DiSclafani reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of her bestselling debut novel The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

Drawing Amanda is set in the under-parented, high-expectation adolescent world of a Manhattan international prep school. Fourteen-year-old budding artist Inky Kahn is still smarting from the death of his father. He thinks he’s found his big break when he bonds with the developer of a new computer game and snags a coveted drawing assignment, for which he uses his secret crush–Amanda–as a model.

Phil Klay reads from and discusses Redeployment, his critically acclaimed debut collection of stories.

TaraShea Nesbit reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Wives of Los Alamos.

Len Vlahos reads from and discusses his debut novel for teen readers The Scar Boys.