Emily Temple holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow and the recipient of a Henfield Prize. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and lives primarily in a queen-sized bed in Brooklyn. The Lightness is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Emily Temple recommends
Blackouts (2023)
Justin Torres
"[Justin] Torres is back with another book that stretches the boundaries of the idea of the novel . . . I was . . . surprised and enchanted by Blackouts . . . a strange dream-like, reality-like patchwork . . . This is a book about erasure and time, about storytelling and art and science, and also, if you'll forgive me, about love. I couldn't put it down."
Collected Works (2023)
Lydia Sandgren
"Lydia Sandgren's Collected Works is the most convincing work of literary fiction I've read in years: one part family saga, one part buddy comedy, one part mystery, one part bildungsroman, and one part philosophical inquiry into the nature of art, the whole filled with unforgettable characters, wry humor, and knock-down gorgeous sentences, positively vibrating with intelligence and style. People often write, with varying degrees of accuracy, that new books feel destined to become classics, but Collected Works feels like it already is one - and you, lucky reader, have stumbled upon it."
New Animal (2022)
Ella Baxter
"Ella Baxter's New Animal is a raw, arresting debut, toothy and surprising--a novel that manages to deeply consider the molten core of human experience (read: death, sex, memory, grief) while also poking fun at it. The result is an affecting, sometimes alarming balancing act that will worm its way inside your consciousness and absolutely refuse to leave."
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