This week we are incredibly excited to welcome the author of one of our, and Barack Obama's, favourite books. Raven Leilani's Luster has, quite rightly, taken the literary world by storm. As well as making Obama's 2020 book list, it's won the Kirkus Prize and been a New York Times bestseller. Sexy, funny and incredibly prescient, it is a book for our times and Raven is a writer of extreme skill and enormous promise. We talked to Raven about unlikeable characters, fantasy movie adaptations, fan fiction and sexy vampires.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Raven Leilani - Luster
Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Zadie Smith - Intimations
Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Brian K. Vaughan - Saga
Alison Bechdel - Fun Home
Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad
Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch
Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets
Susan Choi - My Education
Halle Butler - New Me
Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror
Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family
Megan Giddings - Lakewood
Emily Temple - Lightness
Sarah Gerard - True Love
Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction
Morgan Jerkins - Caul Baby
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
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