The First Books series highlights new authors who read from and discuss their notable first books in fiction, nonfiction, journalism and other genres.
BRANDON TAYLOR, the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub, presents his debut novel Real Life, about a young black graduate student navigating racial, class, and sexual tensions in a Midwestern university town. Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by multiple publications, Real Life is a novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends from an electric new voice.
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