Meg Richardson‘s debut novel, Paradise Pawn, draws on her experiences working at a pawn shop. The writer/translator/cartoonist earned her MFA from Columbia and is releasing her debut novel on July 14, 2026, from Tin House. It is available for pre-order now. In Paradise Pawn, Richardson follows two best friends who can sell anything. When the […]| debutiful
The following is an excerpt from I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer. She is a writer from North West England, currently living in London, and writes the newsletter Emotional Speculation. I Make My Own Fun is about an A-List movie star named Marina who is secretly the worst. Things spiral out of control when she meets a […]| debutiful
Christian Moody, author of the debut story collection Lost in the Forst of Mechanical Birds, has had his work appear in Esquire, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, the Best New American Voices anthology, and the Best American Fantasy anthology. He lives in Indianapolis and works as Brand Director for an e-commerce company. In his […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. Laura Venita Green, author of Sister Creatures, joined the podcast to discuss starting to write fiction in her 30s, her exploration of horror/gothic/genre, and how cycling across the country changed the course of her life. You […]| debutiful
Grace Byron is a writer and critic whose work appeared in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Vogue. Her work has explored topics ranging from what the current administration’s policies mean for trans travelers and their passports, gun ownership in the trans community, and the state of trans healthcare. Her debut novel, Herculine, is about a woman who […]| debutiful
Listen and Subscribe: Apple | Spotify Sign up for our emails to never miss an interview, book excerpt, cover reveal, or book review. On every First Taste Reading Series episode, a writer introduces their book and reads a selection from it. Teresa Dzieglewicz, author of Something Small of How to See a River, reads a selection of poems […]| debutiful
When I tell people that I’ve written a book about my cats, they often ask if it’s a children’s book or a humor book. One person who had read my first book—a cross-genre novella with a healthy dose of literary theory—asked if it featured cartoons. I understand that this is where the mind goes when […]| debutiful
Tatiana Țîbuleac is an award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author whose novels have been translated into 17 languages. A former journalist and UNICEF staffer, she now lives in Paris. Her latest book, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes, was translated from Romanian by Monica Cure, a Romanian-American writer, translator, and two-time Fulbright recipient and winner of the […]| debutiful
Imani Thompson is a London-based writer of Scottish, Irish, and Jamaican heritage who studied Sociology at Cambridge University and worked as a bookseller at Daunt Books. Now, she’s set to release her debut novel, Honey, on April 21, 2026, from Random House. The novel follows Yrsa, a disillusioned PhD student whose accidental role in a professor’s death […]| debutiful
In every interview, I like to ask writers, “Is there a question you’d like me to ask?” I’m always surprised by the types of questions they’d want to ask themselves, so I decided to take the idea of…| debutiful
