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While Rolo’s island proves to be no luxury, Fruit of the Dead is.” —Siobhan Hart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/0afc3f54-fbe3-4709-892c-bc6441fc1f90/Screenshot+2024-12-19+at+1.13.55+PM.png News - Oprah Magazine Best Books of 2024: FRUIT OF THE DEAD by Rachel Lyon In this modern retelling of the myth of Persephone and Demeter, a teenage daughter is lured into an underworld rife with sex,drugs, and luxury when she accepts a job working on the private island of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company’s CEO—and her single mother will stop at nothing to bring her back to the world of the living. A white-knuckled ride to hell and back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/eae3a142-e153-4ea9-8fc1-48e2f4784adb/Screenshot+2024-04-10+at+1.56.58+PM.png News - British GQ The best books of 2024 (so far) “With vibrant language and a sharp, twisting plot, the novel explores coercion, agency and the ferocity of parental bonds, even through their flaws.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/4557f166-6d12-4c47-ae2b-0e8c41c51940/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+8.37.58+AM.png News - The New York Times A Modern-Day Persephone, Seduced by Opioids and Wealth “Superb . . . refreshing . . . Lyon twists the tale just enough to needle our conceptions of coercion and desire.“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/5a13832f-6977-4916-a244-165e64e432b0/Screenshot+2024-07-24+at+9.25.44+AM.png News - LitHub “There is a rich tradition of storytelling through which we get a look inside the lives of beautiful people on beautiful adventures, only to find that such beauty can be a mirage. It can even tip a person into madness. . . . Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead, Scarlett Thomas’s The Sleepwalkers, and Kimberly King Parsons’s We Were the Universe feature women losing something core to their identities—childhood, success, independence, sisterhood—and literally trying to escape that loss. They all land in beautiful places—a private island, a Greek honeymoon, a Montana river town—only to find their losses festering in strange and dangerous ways.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/8652b816-eb48-4c00-8255-dce8161bf031/Screenshot+2024-10-15+at+8.22.49+PM.jpg News - nb. magazine “Lu Rile is a typical young artist searching for her big break in New York, and her complex decisions are at once deplorable and understandable; her moments of heartbreak remain sympathetic in a novel that threatens at any moment to turn the reader against her, and to create a world in which Lu is a villain. Lyon manages to keep these moral questions in play ambiguous enough that, despite the initial unlikability of her protagonist, the atmosphere she creates allows for a great deal of recognition.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/502dcc54-a8a2-4842-9f39-000363e43e99/BIBLIOPHILE-Fruit-of-the-Dead.jpg News - Out In Perth “This stunningly seductive . . . examination of the power of addiction in a modern underworld is compulsive reading.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/7159cc52-cb72-49e3-ad0f-c999d25a3985/Screenshot+2024-07-18+at+1.07.17+PM.jpg News - Bridge Eight Press REVIEW: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon “By bringing the story to present day, and including both Cory’s narrative in third-person and Emer’s first-person perspective, Lyon creates new context, elevating the story into a most relevant dissection of girlhood, motherhood, and the cyclical history of violence against women. The importance of this reimagining of the Persephone myth is the way Lyon refocuses the lens through which we watch the maiden and her mother in their respective journeys.” —Tania Pabón Acosta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/a56a49d2-aa3a-4d95-9c12-b260f264dd28/Screenshot+2024-06-30+at+1.30.51+PM.png News - The Straits Times Book review: Fruit Of The Dead uses Hades and Persephone to tackle addiction and exploitation “Rachel Lyon’s relevant retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone . . . recontextualises contemporary debates of the ethics of exploitative age-gap relationships and addictive painkillers into an age-old tale. With its gestures towards the fabulist and engagement with contemporary issues, this is one of the better Greek rewrites.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/87ec344e-acbb-4d1d-a240-30955f84912d/118-Cover-Mockup-Landscape.jpg News - nb Magazine “As poignant as it is heart-breaking. . . a thoughtful and completely immersive novel that unflinchingly depicts, not only the dark side of capitalism and wealth, but also just how powerful and unbreakable the mother-daughter bond is.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/e84316f8-7ee6-4953-bc14-b488fee26c07/bookreporter_logo.png News “This is far more than a clever retelling; it's also a thoroughly contemporary novel about the lure of narcotics, a powerful mother-daughter story about the lengths a mother will travel in order to save her most precious relationship, and a devastating indictment of power and risk imbalances between older, wealthy men and much younger women… It's perhaps too easy to call FRUIT OF THE DEAD hypnotic, given the effects of the drug that ensnares Cory. But it does pull readers out of time and immerse them in a story that feels both ages old and entirely new.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/61daeb13-27ad-4032-ac6c-97dde0d0d709/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+8.52.56+AM.png News - Novel 'Fruit of the Dead' is a contemporary reimagining of Persephone "Lyon relates this often troubling story in gorgeous prose that’s so vivid and luminous it contrasts starkly with the darkness of the subject matter. Every sentence is a feast.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/fa6f24ef-a39a-49bc-b8dd-af102fe20371/Screenshot+2024-04-16+at+8.50.01+AM.png News - Enthusiasms Rena Mosteirin on “Fruit of the Dead” by Rachel Lyon “Rachel Lyon creates a world of lush, poetic prose that feels at once modern and mythical, a kaleidoscope of sugar, sex, death, rape, and opioid addiction. . . . Lyon has crafted something new and wonderful from an ancient Greek myth. Read it.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/dcaed931-6323-4fe1-9f92-bfdc66efec6c/Booklist_StarReview_badge.jpg News - Booklist “In lush, hallucinatory prose, Lyon narrates from the perspectives of both mother and daughter and evokes the classic myth without distracting readers from the striking contemporary setting and subject matter. Recommend to fans of Jesmyn Ward and Celeste Ng.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/d8f1b213-a2db-4648-99c3-9e29758ad54f/Publishers_Weekly_logo.svg.png News - Publishers Weekly “Lyon (Self-Portrait with Boy) puts a modern twist on the myth of Persephone and Demeter in this irresistible narrative of a naive teenager and her protective mother… The story is brilliantly told through Cory’s and Emer’s alternating perspectives, as Lyon volleys from vibrant third-person narration focused on the teenager to her mother’s frantic first-person inner monologue. The result is an affecting, engrossing, and resonant tale about lost innocence and the enduring bond between a mother and daughter.” (starred review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/5d47829b-7c19-497f-8d70-70cf92acdb1c/Screenshot+2023-12-18+at+6.24.01+PM.png News - Fruit of the Dead “Lyon’s skillful and luscious prose encourages empathy for both [protagonists]. . . . An affecting novel with touches of the fantastical, weaving explorations of power, youth, wealth, and familial love.” (starred review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1555865759372-880X4C4HXPPY7JDIURT3/92818A80-82B9-40DE-B10F-40FC02882362.jpg News - New York Times Paperback Row https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525459318598-M5PEY83TUXTF65LX8QRK/Screen+Shot+2018-05-04+at+2.41.40+PM.png News - The New York Times Book Review This artist’s bildungsroman . . . [wrestles] with complex questions about art-making, integrity and the ethics of ambition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1577544804612-XT7MNYILSHWDJGRTUQQR/Screen+Shot+2019-12-28+at+9.52.30+AM.png News - Les Inrockuptibles “Autoportrait avec garçon”: un premier roman sous forme de récit d'initiation arty (tr.) Self-Portrait With Boy… judiciously explores the links between morality and art, unravels the unthinkable paths of creation, and returns endlessly to this question so contemporary that it never ceases to occupy current events: Is it possible to separate the work from its author? But even more originally, it proposes a fascinating mirror between the trajectory of the artist and that of the politico-economic times in which she lives. The early 1990s saw the advent of neoliberalism, ambition, and individualism. The author draws a parallel between the ferocious greed of developers, ready to do anything to buy back artists' lofts, and the implacable opportunism of her determined heroine. Against the devouring gentrification of the city she opposes the Faustian mercantilism of the art market. At what price does one sell one's roof to the devil? she asks. What about her art? What about her soul? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1548843184402-WKFEB6K6PRXFF65J0ICU/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-01-30%2Bat%2B5.11.28%2BAM.jpg News - So Many Damn Books THE SMDB TOP 6 OF 2018: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon We That Are Young by Preti Taneja Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl Any Man by Amber Tamblyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1546448116595-7J2JZ34G8DOI4C2AUH91/Screen+Shot+2019-01-02+at+11.54.49+AM.png News THESE ARE A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY: In this book, Rachel Lyon deftly explores moral gray areas, the sacrifices we make for art, and the price of a lie. I couldn’t tear myself away from its electrifying pages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1544812932905-F252I25IP425F9A9GYQA/Electric_Lit.jpeg News - Electric Literature Electric Lit’s 20 Best Novels of 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1544719272112-3YTMPFL2MJYYRB4X2JH6/thought-catalog-433204-unsplash.jpg News - Luna Luna 17 AMAZING BOOKS & COLLECTIONS OF 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1544539473801-GHDZERG4J8YCBRV6BF7J/entropy.png News BEST OF 2018: BEST FICTION BOOKS Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success, a powerful exploration of the complex terrain of female friendship, and a brilliant debut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1543925069636-9ATRVBRJVWDD507MUZ7S/Screen+Shot+2018-12-03+at+9.29.14+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1542112645010-KEFW64CXWCWROWJBDQT8/2018-year-in-fiction-rooster-long-list.png News - The Morning News The 2019 Tournament of Books Long List https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1542112787761-QEIUIIPPXH0SW9IRXARG/LongList.jpg News - The Center for Fiction Announcing the Long List for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518027392327-7KWDWULZ635P4Z2042EB/branding_main-5ca4200447dce40d3e4fd3e079099c948eca49a1.png News 'Self-Portrait With Boy' Explores The Narcissistic Ambition That Fuels Success Lyon's striking debut novel is called Self-Portrait with Boy, and though it looks backward to the end of an era in New York, it's not at all nostalgic. Think the tough tone of something like Rachel Kushner's New York/Italian art and politics novel, The Flamethrowers, or Olivia Laing's atmospheric nonfiction book about New York, The Lonely City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1534442482611-WY1L4Y7J1HAA24019XOP/heavyfeather.png News “Portrait of Desperation”: Paige M. Ferro on Rachel Lyon’s Novel SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY With her debut, Self-Portrait with Boy, Lyon has created something as unique, compelling, and exquisite as it is terrifying, and she is certainly being recognized for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1520805055221-CQ0OGFLDFDCDV1FEVJPO/larbsignagelong.jpg News The Unintended Moment: Rachel Lyon’s “Self-Portrait with Boy” Self-Portrait with Boy is Rachel Lyon’s first book, and it is definitely far from being a lucky accident. Lyrically written, emotionally complicated, and surprising in many ways, it is hard to put down. It explores what constitutes success and fame and art. A single chance occurrence creates something out of nothing, and someone out of no one — but at an enormous expense. Rachel Lyon has given us much to think about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518181195602-6IY7N0UZ6P6O41ZG4T4S/2000px-Los_Angeles_Times_logo.svg.png News Rachel Lyon on art and ambition in her debut novel, 'Self-Portrait With Boy' “Self-Portrait With Boy" is a book about a woman faced with an impossible choice. The conflict is rich and thorny, raising questions about art and morality, love and betrayal, sacrifice and opportunism and the chance moments that can define a life. The novel wrestles with the nature of art but moves with the speed of a page-turner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517936234896-T3G2SN2OHIUCOOHDLQRI/bk.jpeg News - Electric Literature How Does a Tragedy Become Art? Capturing the most joyous, life-changing moments on camera is either a stroke of luck or the result of careful planning. The tragic instants that alter lives, however, are rarely images we want to frame; when they are caught on film, we’re left with certain questions: what to do with this tangible reminder of sadness? Who exactly owns the rights to this moment? The person, their family, the capturer? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517941597613-UBSF957G88YYWF357JN9/kenyon-review-logo.jpg News In Self-Portrait With Boy, Rachel Lyon has written a powerful debut novel Self-Portrait will get you thinking deeply about the challenges and complexities of creativity, morality, and making art as a woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1519100720975-1C6PX3ZRT8TE74KRSQA9/CHICAGOweb_logo.png News How Ruthless Must Artists Be to Succeed? Self-Portrait with Boy is about making it as an artist, but it’s also about desire: the seesawing balance of companionship and compromise. The pursuit of artistic greatness can be a lonely endeavor. It can also be a transcendent experience, and one of the most compelling aspects of the novel is Lu’s relentless hunger to make her dreams a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517935293392-07GK9T1ZF7LNV5E1F0E6/Screen+Shot+2018-02-06+at+11.41.00+AM.png News - Library Journal STARRED REVIEW Fabulously written, this spellbinding debut novel is a real page-turner. A powerful, brilliantly imagined story not easily forgotten; highly recommended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1515087343977-HUOO1N7U98WG3ZAO1O5U/BOL.gif News STARRED REVIEW In her gripping first novel, Lyon sympathetically portrays [her protagonist's] struggle to make an impossible decision and to deal with its repercussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518050703842-NKHCFVCHGDM8EEVCZJ61/The_Seattle_Times_logo.svg.png News Rachel Lyon’s novel ‘Self-Portrait with Boy’ explores where art meets exploitation “Self-Portrait with Boy” is a confident first novel with a lot going for it. The moral dilemma Lyon sets up is explored with intelligence and grace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518219595279-RMN4ONFZ6P37C2X5GAUN/paris.png News Staff Picks: Rachel Lyon, Radiohead, and Richard Pryor The story is told in crisp, clicking, photographic prose and has the narrative momentum of a thriller, though the question isn’t what tragedy will befall the main character but what that character will do with a tragedy once it’s happened—and, most interestingly, happened to someone else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517588220051-35VVJHW2JU4M856X1T30/Screen+Shot+2018-01-04+at+12.07.53+PM.png News - Chicago Review of Books Chicago review of books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518182316680-EAYEIJM8OU1QHZKB3UKC/Screen+Shot+2018-02-09+at+8.18.13+AM.png News - Artsy A NEW NOVEL ASKS, WHAT IF YOUR ARTWORK EXPLOITS SOMEONE ELSE'S PAIN? The novel is a rarity—a fully believable, fictional treatment of the art world, ready to share shelf space with the likes of Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, Siri Husvedt’s The Blazing World, Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York, and a few select others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1519749747269-BU80JXZN0LJM4G919BKW/MRlogo.png News February Book Review: Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon With a vividly rendered setting, an emotionally turbulent narrative, and a spine-chilling dose of the paranormal, Self-Portrait with Boy has me dwelling on the dark side of creative expression and eager to see what Rachel Lyon produces next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1515086581209-YLVL8OOLYBD0G3RHXLAY/KirkusLogoHiRes-1024x478.jpg News KIRKUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1519834489527-33JPQKVM7JP9VI5KMA4G/library-journal.png News Spring/Summer Bests | Debut Novels A powerful, brilliantly imagined story not easily forgotten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1577545628874-YOEE4NRDCYX3KIL7IOVM/pwlogo.jpg News - Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/395c066f-5333-4b5b-bf56-00dff13c7d77/walk-it-off.jpg News - Walk It Off A Walk Along the Buttermilk Channel with Rachel Lyon “I think some people truly understand themselves. They know themselves. Know their own personality. They come out fully formed. I’m not that person. I’ve had to dig inward—even when I was a child—to try and figure out who I am. What motivates me. I’m still very much doing that.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/be428e90-39e4-4793-8b1a-ab9be040448d/Screenshot+2024-12-19+at+1.10.16+PM.png News - So Many Damn Books “FRUIT OF THE DEAD, by Rachel Lyon: It was so great to be in Rachel’s voice again. SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY is a real favorite of mine, still. This time she was retelling the Persephone myth, using a headstrong teenager and her, perhaps, not present enough mother, and she also swapped the Underworld of the Persephone myth for a billionaire’s playground compound. I just think that was particularly prescient for our times.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/9b82a105-351d-4c5b-9834-2e1fb350ec89/Screenshot+2024-04-05+at+12.56.20+PM.png News - Electric Literature “This novel is a searing, imaginative retelling of Persephone, both memory and warning for any reader raised as a daughter, or parent to one. . . . Fruit of the Dead, pulsing with life, is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.” —Annie Liontas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/cb306d1b-e7a6-4f76-9761-bf3763b1a602/Jamison-Author-Photo_-photocredits_Grace-Ann-Leadbeater-plus-Rachel-Lyon-credit-van-Hattem.jpg News - LitHub A Subterranean Kinship: Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison on Writing Separate But Related Books A Conversation About Mythology, Motherhood, Literary Resonances, and More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/e55c6f97-4a5b-4eb0-a809-39340d01e74d/candyofthedead.png News - So Many Damn Books Rachel Lyon returns to talk about her new novel, Fruit of the Dead, and how it wasn’t always a Persephone myth retelling, she found that along the way. Plus, we get into the “generative fill” of reading, and I pontificate on dust mote fiction, inspired by the fetid summer heat within the pages of Tessa Hadley’s The Past. Read along! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/145fc25b-45a9-44dd-9c29-bfa841e43a51/write-or-die.jpeg News - Write Or Die Rachel Lyon: On the Ancient Problems of Women, Writing Monstrous Men, and Her Novel ‘Fruit of the Dead’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/837dd50e-66ac-419a-9f15-d092a5a47051/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+10.48.10+AM.png News - Chicago Review of Books “You Learn to Care for Your Characters Differently”: An Interview with Rachel Lyon on Fruit of the Dead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/eded43a1-dd36-4b54-bc40-0cb4419251e3/INTERVIEWS%2B2024%2B%286%29.png News - Epiphany Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/f601511b-5aca-4b36-8843-dc1ee14ac06e/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+9.11.49+AM.png News - Library of America “A myth is never fixed in time and place. Almost by definition, it evolves and adapts, breaks apart and reconfigures, retaining its familiar lineaments and explanatory power no matter when, where, and with whom it plays out. In Rachel Lyon’s sophomore novel, Fruit of the Dead, published this week by Scribner, the ancient story of Persephone’s abduction by Hades serves as the frame for an ultramodern tale of capture, consent, addiction, and complicated desire, set amid the roil of a twenty-first century capitalism gone off the rails.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/55a50ad5-e2c2-4ca6-ab98-ffbfc66c9fc2/Screenshot+2024-02-07+at+2.49.13+PM.png News - In Process With: Rachel Lyon “Today’s In Process With… brings us to the desk(s) of the writer Rachel Lyon. Rachel and I met when we figured out our first books had the same launch date—which was actually yesterday; happy 6 year book anniversary to us! That book was SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOY, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize, and which I recommend to anyone who wants a book about artists, grief, chance, gentrifying Brooklyn in the early 90s, and the essential question of responsibility: to self, art, community.” —Danielle Lazarin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/74f79aee-62a4-4336-ab10-51fee06c52e8/Screenshot+2023-11-29+at+6.27.38+AM.png News - Maximum Shelf, 11/28/23 “Rachel Lyon's second novel, Fruit of the Dead, is a lushly detailed, mesmerizing retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, set in modern times. This version retains original themes and subject matter, including power struggles, sexual assault, and cycles of growth and decay, while adding fresh commentary on addiction, class dynamics, and late-stage capitalism. Readers absolutely do not need familiarity with the myth to enjoy the novel, but such familiarity will be amply rewarded by Lyon's subtle, clever references. The result is smart, disturbing, rich with opulent detail, and harrowing (there are several scenes of sexual assault). . . . This compulsively enthralling novel recasts an ancient myth in familiar times to great effect. Disquieting, propulsive, wise, and frightening, Lyon's imaginative second novel is hard to put down and harder to forget.” —Julia Kastner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/eda4fe72-fa96-41ee-b835-e9f1642ef787/Ashfield+News.png News - The Ashfield News The Ashfield News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1609171339213-7M836GJVRD0A5U0GRCMW/Screen+Shot+2020-12-28+at+11.01.36+AM.png News - Writerly Bites Host Blair Hurley chats with Rachel about finding the body in fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1581852484868-1E8AHGGIZ7AJ5DSCPBZY/Screen+Shot+2020-02-16+at+6.27.39+AM.png News - One Story Q&A with Rachel Lyon by Patrick Ryan “You’ll Know When It’s Time” is about much more than a cat and a cat-owner. It’s about marriage, infidelity, parenting, aging, and so many other things. Rachel Lyon is a powerhouse of talent, and our new issue stands as a testament to that. We hope you enjoy Ida and Denny’s last hurrah as much as we did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1581450097740-X6X6EK6AC69NPHEL2DUB/Screen+Shot+2020-02-11+at+2.41.21+PM.png News - LitHub / LIC Reading Series LIC Reading Series Podcast: Jared Harél, Morgan Jerkins, and Rachel Lyon: Onstage Conversations From the LIC Reading Series Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on March 13, 2018, with Jared Harél (Go Because I Love You), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), and Rachel Lyon (Self-Portrait With Boy). Check back Thursday for the discussion! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1576874408110-DR7HZAFCQBI6UJG2YQKS/Screen+Shot+2019-12-20+at+3.39.49+PM.png News Ask the Editor: An Interview with Rachel Lyon, Editor in Chief of Epiphany Rachel Lyon has done something many aspire to do: Made a career for herself as both a successful author and editor. Her debut novel, Self-Portrait With Boy, met with critical success, and is currently being developed as a feature film. Meanwhile, Lyon is the Editor-in-Chief at literary journal Epiphany. As part of our Ask the Editor series, Lyon spoke with MFA non-fiction candidate Elena Sheppard about her career path, what it really means to be an Editor-in-Chief, and what everyone who aspires to this kind of role really needs in their arsenal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1573772107637-ISMB2NEQHPIQ71FMSO6F/Twitter_Cover_2_.jpg News Episode 40: Slushie Pile Welcome to the 40th episode of the Dead Rabbits podcast. Today we’ve got the lovely ladies of the Ditmas Lit reading series, Rachel Lyon and Sarah Bridgins. They give two of the best readings we’ve yet to have on our podcast, period. What could possibly be better? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1546447367796-YVKWQY9HRDDMF2D0HB33/Me_ChrisStella.jpg News - Keep the Channel Open EPISODE 79: RACHEL LYON Rachel Lyon is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel’s debut novel Self-Portrait With Boy caught my attention for its complex depiction of a young artist in 1990’s Brooklyn, and the story has stuck with me in the months since I first read it. In our conversation, Rachel and I talked about the similarities between her novel and one of her earlier short stories, about the necessity of art in the contemporary world, and about the way her novel and its characters engage with questions of class. Then in the second segment, we talked about alcoholism and the role drinking plays in our culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1546448428167-XFCAGZ340KF1FNJ42FRM/cropped-debutifulgoldbanner.jpg News Rachel Lyon reflects on her debut ‘Self-Portrait with Boy’ “I am a complete amateur at everything. I do yoga, but I fall down a lot. I cook, but only a very limited repertoire, mostly rice and beans and the occasional vegetable. I grow plants, but sometimes they die. I planted an avocado pit this year and the darn thing is growing into a tree! But right beside it, I’ve got this poor French lavender that’s been brown and brittle for years. I have no idea what’s wrong with it. I put it next to the avocado tree hoping maybe the avocado will inspire it, but I’m afraid it’s just become resentful.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1535483105010-3HKA5XBLAQTEYIHYWUS8/overview+hero.jpg News - 24PearlStreet FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: RACHEL LYON Rachel Lyon shares with us her tricks to overcoming writer’s block, the craft lessons that stuck with her, and the story of how she became a writer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1533818725124-8ASIY9PAVFSTFS0OZMFL/image.jpeg News - iHeartRadio Sometimes there's that pivotal moment that can change everything in a person's life. Lu Riles has one of those moments in her quest to become an artist appreciated for her photographic works. But it comes at a cost, a very high cost. Rachel Lyon sheds light on this amazing story in "Self-Portrait With Boy." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1528221544211-4EXFHTEB2I8W0R2XZ4IC/wirb.png News An Interview with Rachel Lyon The debut novelist talks art, life-altering decisions, and the reality of scrapping the first draft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1527089227641-0SQZDKZU7S1AX343XGJX/Writers+Bone.png News Episode 291: Self-Portrait With Boy Author Rachel Lyon Author Rachel Lyon discusses her novel Self-Portrait With Boy with filmmaker Nick Kreiss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525877344659-7GR3Z0IHNE8BVWIAQH8D/Screen+Shot+2018-05-09+at+10.48.25+AM.png News - English Kills Review Let’s play a game. Let’s pretend you’re an aspiring photographer living close to the poverty line in a warehouse in Brooklyn. You work three jobs to support yourself, but no matter how hard you work, you never seem to make ends meet. Your high-ceilinged apartment is always infested with vermin, too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. You obsess over an artistic project that no one seems to care about. And then your dad needs a surgery he can’t afford. What would you sacrifice for a chance at fiscal and critical artistic success? Your pride? Your vision for your work? The relationships with those around you? Would you go as far as to trade yourself for success? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525875962211-24AOLH0R9HPJ0WYGSP6G/entropy.png News “Rachel Lyon and I first met when I took a workshop she was leading through Sackett Street Writers last year. She was a wonderful teacher and has been a sage guide to me as a young writer in New York. Her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, has generated well-deserved buzz. Rachel and I met at a cafe in Crown Heights to discuss her novel, ghosts, the early 1990s, socio-economic class in art, and transcendence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525190167474-K7MIIGEVZQ7OJG0AAHBI/Red-Ink-roundtable.jpg News - LitHub ON ENVY, UNSATISFIED DESIRE, AND NOT WAITING FOR PERMISSION A RED INK ROUNDTABLE WITH MIN JIN LEE, JAMIE QUATRO, RACHEL LYON, AND MORE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1524845040401-PKLUC23ZQL7Y3X6JLKBY/Screen+Shot+2018-04-27+at+12.03.39+PM.png News - Michigan Quarterly Review I could not have predicted wanting to spend an entire book in the mind of Lu, but once introduced, I could barely be torn away to perform basic daily tasks like feeding myself, something Lu herself often ranks low on her list of priorities. What I mean to say is that her obsessions will quickly become yours, her ambition will intoxicate you, and her ferocious judgments of others and herself will feel as inevitable as if they were facts rather than personal opinions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518627108596-8N4DW3QPI37EYLJ494HI/otherppl-header-6-11-2014.png News Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Rachel Lyon is this episode's guest. Her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, is available now from Scribner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518760905303-5RCX7GYH35AO9HDRTU8A/Screen+Shot+2018-02-15+at+10.01.27+PM.png News The Amoral Artist Rachel Lyon is at once a realist and a dreamer. The descriptions of 1990s Dumbo feel so tangible that you want to walk under the rain-slicked overpasses while listening to the Pixies’ Bossanova. But between Lyon’s brilliant flashes of realistic prose, snappy dialogue, and brisk plot, is the space of dreaming: Lu Rile’s (or is it Rachel Lyon’s?) philosophical fixations and the slight absurdism with which she sees her places, and others’ places, in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1523821033242-2A9CSO2O3BEE1TYLXAZ4/pigeonpages.jpeg News Pigeon Pages Interview with Rachel Lyon Fiction writers tweet beautifully. Poets, even better. But I wish Twitter would impose severe restrictions on the communication of politicians. Twitter is great for jokes, rants, flights of fancy, and simple observations, but it is simply not the proper platform for policy decisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517935693209-35NUW42PYE2880SNGZHE/danny-lyon-dumbo.jpg News - BOMB You Have to Get Their Attention: An Interview with Rachel Lyon by Ryan Spencer At its core, this novel dissects the risks and sacrifices involved in coming to terms with this notion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518206359355-GAKA9N3DK9UD95KOWBIG/Screen+Shot+2018-02-09+at+2.58.27+PM.png News - BoldTV BOLD LIFE BOOKSTR: RACHEL LYON ON HER DEBUT NOVEL SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1524513299573-SPXI3D1YUWA567HMOI6N/Screen+Shot+2018-04-23+at+3.54.43+PM.png News - Buzzfeed 8 Inspiring Women Show Us Where They Get Their Most Creative Work Done Writer Rachel Lyon likes to work among sentimental treasures that remind her of friends and family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1521552954701-N6X1D39955VJ7H9DGSQJ/rumpus.png News READY TO SEE MAGIC EVERYWHERE: TALKING WITH RACHEL LYON Lyon’s sharply observed, character-driven fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Electric Literature, Joyland, and The Iowa Review. She and I met at her apartment in Crown Heights to discuss artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518627382649-LWSHG7VXZ5V8JYI41725/Cantu-Birkner-Krieder-Lyons-Nunez.jpg News - LitHub 5 WRITERS, 7 QUESTIONS, NO WRONG ANSWERS Welcome to the first edition of the Lit Hub Author Questionnaire, a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1519153871274-Z6INQ98BZLBRJ71L2JTN/Lu%27s+Pinched+Botanicum.jpg News - So Many Damn Books Episode Eighty-Four: Rachel Lyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517866377834-R0XZOFRHEMXC27FG46CK/vol1-new.jpg News “I Feel a Lot of Tenderness For Her”: Rachel Lyon on Writing “Self-Portrait with Boy” Rachel Lyon’s debut novel Self-Portrait with Boy is a gorgeously written story about ambition and responsibility, set in the New York City art scene of the early 1990s. In advance of the book’s launch at Books Are Magic on February 5, I sat down with Lyon at Pel’s Pie in Brooklyn to discuss her novel, teaching and writing prompts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/9a8ec117-c6d3-4434-97a9-834aa3a13cd7/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+6.56.44+AM.png News - Three Percent We’re extremely honored to be announcing this year’s finalists of the 2025 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, a quite prestigious annual prize ($15K to the winner!) awarded through the University of Rochester to a work of prose written by a woman early in their career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/b08c8588-6472-458c-aa35-eefd6a22baf3/Screenshot+2025-09-09+at+10.23.39+AM.png News - TimesNow Read These 8 Books If You’re Tired of Pretending You’re Fine In Brooklyn, a young artist fights to find her place . . . While living in a rundown apartment, she accidentally captures a haunting photograph of a boy falling to his death. The image could bring her recognition, but sharing it would betray the grief of his family. The story follows her struggle as ambition collides with morality, friendships are tested, and art becomes entangled with loss. It asks what price is too high for success. —Girish Shukla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/01388b59-e42f-459d-a3e3-73c26b311a37/Screenshot+2025-05-22+at+9.10.45+AM.jpg News - LitHub Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships “One of the most fascinating aspects of Fruit of the Dead are the stories that Cory tells herself in order to stay at the island and remain with Rolo, the rationalizations that allow her to ignore her inner doubts and believe that what’s she’s doing (and who she’s doing it with) is a good thing.” —Meg Serino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/74b8420f-6527-4a4f-abf8-e43dc538783e/white-lotus-listicle-feature.jpg News - BookTrib. 11 Cures for Your Season Three White Lotus Hangover Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead reimagines the Persephone myth as a surreal literary thriller steeped in sensuality, power and control — perfect for fans of Victoria Ratliff, who floated through Season Three with curated calm until reality threatened to ruffle her silk kaftans. . . . [T]he novel unpacks the price of surrendering agency for comfort, especially in worlds built by men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/7983d99b-a922-459a-ac84-114d6aa5d9b1/private-equity.jpg News - LitHub 25 books out in paperback this February! It’s quite a month for paperbacks, with releases from well-established and exciting new names alike, including work from Judith Butler, Colm Tóibín, Russell Banks, Leslie Jamison, Rachel Lyon, Margot Livesy, Anna Funder, and many, many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/43a4500a-fcfd-4f08-a7ec-3938af43bcb1/Screenshot+2025-01-14+at+8.25.02+PM.png News - Longreads Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2025 Before he sits down to write each day, Pravesh Bhardwaj seeks inspiration in the form of short stories freely available to read online. Often, he’ll tag stories #longreads and post them to X for others to enjoy. Of the 217 stories he shared in 2024, here are the 10 he enjoyed most. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/720ef578-75dc-4a53-8174-462fdda219b9/Screenshot+2024-12-19+at+1.44.53+PM.png News - Write or Die Write or Die Magazine’s Staff and Contributor Best Books of 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/b675ed43-58ee-4ad6-bc53-84cb61fd4578/Screenshot+2024-12-06+at+9.06.03+AM.png News - Editors’ Picks for 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/a041429a-ea08-4d12-9000-859dca29156f/Screenshot+2024-12-12+at+10.17.22+PM.png News - LitGirl Syllabus: Term 1 Fame Labyrinth: The Monster of Perception https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/3ef78d2c-34ef-4227-b5e5-262e088ec81b/Screenshot+2024-09-24+at+9.54.18+AM.jpg News - Evergreen Review An excerpt from Fruit of the Dead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/7f4876a5-87ca-4d3c-a4c0-52aabb6efd72/Flash%2BContest%2B2024%2B-%2B2.jpg News Submissions are now open for our 2024 FLASH CONTEST judged by Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead and Self Portrait with Boy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/adcc5ee6-bb8a-4c9f-bd49-47d11ab0c929/Screenshot+2024-06-22+at+6.09.34+AM.png News - Mashable The 10 best books of 2024 so far, according to BookTok Rachel Lyon's newest release retells the story of Persephone and Demeter, and BookTok was not disappointed. "I think this is already my favorite release of 2024, even though it was the first book I read this year," Bossard said in a video about the book. "Perfect for fans of Emma Cline, Raven Leilani, Ottessa Moshfeg, and Megan Nolan." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/8dc2fadb-4ffb-4c6f-89a2-6478301a4ed5/Screenshot+2024-04-30+at+8.24.08+PM.png News - New England Public Media NEPM Book Club: 'Fruit of the Dead' Join us for the NEPM Book Club — a quarterly virtual meet-up dedicated to bringing NEPM friends together to chat about new, diverse and interesting fiction. Our next meeting will be Thursday, July 18 at 7 p.m. We'll be reading "Fruit of the Dead" by Ashfield author Rachel Lyon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/e54be8fd-f2cf-46ba-b672-c3e232f4d038/Screenshot+2024-04-25+at+9.22.59+PM.png News - Mashable Which books are going to go TikTok famous this year Bossard said Fruit of the Dead is "beautifully written," "completely consuming" and made her "stare... in awe." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/4bd9fd1c-fb50-4177-9659-d7c3e0f0562b/Conde%CC%81_Nast_Traveler_logo.png News - Women Who Travel Book Club: 14 New Books to Add to Your Spring Reading List “A page-turning story; one that interweaves teenage naivety, motherly intuition, and male privilege for a fast-moving tale that might call into question your own hard lines on topics like addiction, consent, and exploitation.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/99ad258b-3fe3-4b52-b77f-6e6aff9e27fc/Screenshot+2024-03-28+at+8.34.14+PM.png News - LitHub “Another juicy and irreverent use of classic sculpture, in a very striking composition.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/ba29a903-8c29-455f-a88b-4ea90dba2e09/Screenshot+2024-04-16+at+8.07.06+PM.png News - Oprah Daily “Alternating between the perspective of mother and daughter, we can indulge in the full thrill of being young, reckless, and newly independent—and the full propulsive terror of being older and knowing better. Though Lyon pulls the bones of the story from ancient mythology, the book’s characters are intensely—at times achingly—human and its plot is urgently contemporary. A white-knuckled ride to hell and back.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/67d2b2ec-0b5e-498d-89df-2208ff4e8c03/spring-2024-books-65cfd5c9e5029.jpg News - Town and Country The 45 Must-Read Books of Spring 2024 “Lyon's storytelling . . . is a mesmerizing, fantastic retelling of an ancient myth.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/2d6f518b-086b-4a8b-bad1-6092db9afff9/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+8.34.06+AM.png News - Bustle This Spring’s 44 Most Anticipated Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/c5e46868-131d-4b88-ac16-25570a37ccc8/Screenshot+2024-03-07+at+8.49.31+AM.png News - OurCulture 10 Books We’re Excited to Read in March 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/6db02707-e8c9-47e6-8d24-ae87bd43918e/PEOPLE_Fruit+of+the+Dead.jpg News - People Magazine’s “Best Books To Read In March 2024” [Lyon’s] unsettling novel about addiction, sex and desire, power dynamics and control is a reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter, but still delightful for the myth-averse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/ce476496-2859-4785-b2e0-f22d6ab80de7/sci-fi-march.png News - LitHub Mythical Retellings, Mars Colonies, and Reincarnated Lovers: March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/23f3556d-d709-4ea1-b269-14b30e7320e3/Publishers_Weekly_logo.svg.png News - 4 New Highly Anticipated Sophomore Novels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/8ac8e908-e38e-4205-8422-c0569b11743a/Screenshot+2024-02-27+at+5.30.04+PM.png News - NYLON March 2024’s Must-Read Book Releases https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1fb7edf7-a2a0-434e-a864-f17b979ed88f/Screenshot+2024-02-27+at+5.32.25+PM.png News - PureWow 11 Books We Can’t Wait To Read in March https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/9de80488-3d26-460e-9cbb-0b42a0f93f62/Screenshot+2023-05-10+at+12.46.49+PM.png News - Deadline: Zoë Kravitz & Thomasin McKenzie To Lead Mona Fastvold’s Psychological Horror ‘Self-Portrait’ For Topic Studios Cannes Market Hot Pic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/9f044812-6edf-4cac-8e67-5df921ff32ea/Elle.jpeg News - Elle: The Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024, So Far “Rachel Lyon’s taken exceptional pains to reimagine the Persephone-and-Demeter myth for the modern day, casting a young camp counselor as Persephone; her distracted, high-achieving single mother as Demeter; and a pharmaceutical tycoon as the Hades who shuttles our Persephone to his private island. There, wonders—and risks—abound.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/3009bb78-ce69-4781-be7e-292eba72096f/2024-LitHub.jpeg News - LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 “When an 18-year-old camp counselor gets swept away to an isolated island as the nanny for a shady pharma billionaire’s kids, her mother sets off to find her and bring her back. I’m a sucker for a good myth-retelling, especially when it doesn’t sweat the plot points too hard, and so I’m very excited for Lyon’s riff on Persephone & Demeter. Pharma billionaire Hades? Yes please.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/0b77c249-c751-42a5-bea3-160a5f58c875/2024-Books-Lilith.png News - Lillith’s 21 Books We Want to Read in 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1623105628559-2MCOGVRNYKVI0RUP7W3S/wigleaf.jpeg News - The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021 RACHEL LYON, "150 bpm," from Catapult https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/ab1d2e28-0a73-43c1-875e-e177bf40c22e/EL_logo%402x.png News 12 Books that Illuminate the Long Road to Becoming an Artist Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/724063d7-62fd-45b3-88f6-f6bc71e70d90/Screenshot+2023-11-29+at+8.24.25+AM.jpg News - Our 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2024 “Fruit of the Dead promises to be a journey into a fever-dream where myth meets life in an unflinching examination of love and control, destruction and rebirth. Can March come any sooner?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/f7cae17f-9728-411b-9f5b-6ca3fa19f3a6/Screenshot+2023-07-31+at+10.04.37+AM.png News - Featured Titles by Authors Who Participated in the One Story Summer Writers' Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/e7e2e343-21fe-40a9-bf2a-9e03efba4cf5/Screen+Shot+2022-07-17+at+4.04.57+PM.png News - The Bookseller Scribner has pre-empted Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon, a "beautifully crafted" reimagining of the Persephone myth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/3250b3f8-caaa-46cc-ac17-1b258e550d4b/PMDealReport_385279.png News - Publishers Marketplace FRUIT OF THE DEAD to be published by Scribner in spring 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1575811100433-ZHE5S037D2HXWCRZ281F/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-12-08%2Bat%2B8.15.21%2BAM.jpg News - Caro’s City For the Millennial Sibling: Self-Portrait with Boy What’s “off limits” when it comes to making art? What must we sacrifice in the name of a masterpiece? You’ll get sucked in to this young 20s artist’s grappling as much as I did, I’m sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1544719397957-SINO966FH1706QIQKCQ4/self-portrait-of-a-boy-2.jpg News - Variety ‘Self-Portrait With Boy’ in Development at Topic Studios Topic Studios (“Leave No Trace”) has bought rights to Rachel Lyon’s debut novel and plans to develop the project as a feature film. Lyon will adapt her own novel. John Lyons (“Boogie Nights”), who recently signed a first-look deal with Topic Studios, has come on board to produce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1566331001457-RXRCB3ERMOBLD2TG8WLL/Screen+Shot+2019-08-20+at+3.56.29+PM.png News - Broadway World Topic Studios to Develop Film Adaptation of SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1559481387495-4Z3Q9RTSLRZUVUGIL5UK/Screen+Shot+2019-06-02+at+9.16.04+AM.png News - LifeHacker It’s not light and fluffy, but Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon will keep you turning the pages wherever you are this summer. …As you can see, I’m still thinking about it! Please, now you go think about it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525132813031-2SB0JCR14PIT8DLX2OK2/The_New_Yorker.png News Briefly Noted “There is nothing more pathetic than being the only person who believes in you,” says the protagonist of this début novel set in 1991, an aspiring photographer, broke and squatting in an unrenovated loft. Each day, she takes a self-portrait, and in the background of one she accidentally captures a nine-year-old boy falling to his death. She recognizes the photograph as a “masterpiece” that can propel her from poverty into the art world, but, after growing close to the boy’s grieving mother, she feels torn about capitalizing on the tragedy. Lyon frames the choice as one of self-definition: Must one be ruthless to be an artist? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1556206457731-IOLOAOSNNN5HLKK6G909/MemoirMondayHEADER1.jpg News “Other Rachel Lyons” I am not the only person who gets a little rush out of receiving correspondence meant for other people with my name. It used to be that on the Verizon network you could text someone just by typing in a name; the author Leila Sales received thousands of texts over five years from strangers who’d addressed their text messages L-E-I-L-A. From 2007-2012 she documented them on an entertaining blog called, “The Leila Texts: Small Glimpses Into Strangers’ Lives, Courtesy of a Technological Glitch.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1520805355723-UYPVG3SCY7LKGQ390DQY/O+Mag.jpg News - O Magazine 10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1544549596575-HQPRMYGSKY7Z0XPO0HOU/Screen+Shot+2018-12-11+at+12.33.04+PM.png News A Year In Reading: Adrienne Celt Exciting and excellent: Rachel Lyon’s Self-Portrait with Boy, Danielle Lazarin’s collection Back Talk, R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1543924927297-KMWNKBR3M4BYU5R4THKM/Screen+Shot+2018-12-04+at+7.01.49+AM.png News A Look at the 35 Over 35 List Here are my top five picks from their list, followed by the full list: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1535022722560-QMDF2HZ8E4O1UIKT1ACN/Screen+Shot+2018-08-23+at+7.11.46+AM.png News - Belletrist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1527088689556-T06EEN18A3SC8UDPFHU4/Screen+Shot+2018-05-23+at+11.17.42+AM.png News - Poets & Writers “It’s going to be the first thing someone lays their eyes on before they read it.” Jaya Miceli, art director at Scribner, discusses her love of books covers and how the jacket designs were created for several popular novels, such as Rachel Lyon’s Self-Portrait With Boy and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied Sing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1525539574674-70CNTGPYGJ1LKE8XXA51/Screen+Shot+2018-05-05+at+12.59.18+PM.png News - Upper East Side Magazine The Luxury Constellation-Connecting New York City to the World EXCERPT FROM SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY Above us, caught in the branches of a tree like a manifestation of sunlight itself, was a golden scarf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1524764009215-514XARS23OVS4YFZHC8X/SPWB.jpg News - The Secret Library EPISODE 100: SARAH SELECKY ON RADIANT SHIMMERING LIGHT AND MARY LAURA PHILPOTT'S SPRING MUST-READS The book gets into questions of ambition and scruples and what we owe other people, like, what do you owe your friends? What do you owe your family? What do you owe your neighbors? What do you owe strangers? It's really a fine book. It snuck up on me and I was so glad it did. I couldn't put it down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1522797478983-E6U5T4JO7A93T7GCVVAX/submishmash.png News TOOLS TO TAKE FOR A SPIN: RACHEL LYON'S PLOT ROULETTE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1516376254537-IVZT1ITNJJ6265LQLFAA/435a855d-1ef7-4d99-abd8-28e686b6b71c-self-portrait-with-boy.jpeg News - Bustle WHAT DOES A BOOK DESIGNER DO? JAYA MICELLI TAKES YOU BEHIND THE SCENES "On a recent project for Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon, I was emotionally compelled by the story of the female protagonist, an ambitious artist/photographer." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517866486291-11RGOJIJ519S28YRNE9C/APT.png News - Apartment Therapy 9 Buzzed-About Authors You'll Want to Know Before Your Friends Do Lyon's first novel takes a deep look at the difficult choices artists make around their most powerful works, while also exploring the complexities of a female friendship founded on loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1546810716856-EVOTDHW5DCW217CCSZMO/Parnassus.jpg News - Parnassus Books New Season, New Books: 22 Staff-Picked Reads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517941167775-5WCCJY5JQJFKAJ43WGGN/feb-5-books.jpg News - CRAFT Literary New books: week of February 5! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1519495473445-I4JJR8BFMS5A12RYZH3L/Top-Books_Feb-16.png News - LitHub The Best Reviewed Books of the Week https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1515086928810-I2P2TBYTI5OOV5B1UGUS/vol1-new.jpg News 23 FOR 2018: A LITERARY PREVIEW FOR THE YEAR TO COME We’re always up for novels dealing with artists and the ethical quandaries in which they find themselves, and Rachel Lyon’s debut falls squarely into that category. Throw in a detailed portrait of 1990s New York, and you have our full attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517587689513-J92L00QS11CDNP2YU37Z/opengraph_default.png News A selection of first sentences from new books, Feb. 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517522808344-YWYKLKSQDUEBE5ZAZ336/bookriot-logo-1.png News MUST-READ FEBRUARY NEW RELEASES A searing novel about the fraught relationship between intimacy and ambition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1515585975599-8BVU7YFZJ2Q14QR5ZPB1/Paperback-Paris.gif News You Oughta Read: 3 Debut Authors with Books out This January I am always on the prowl for a great new book to read, and so it’s always a delight to find a book by first-timers—these little discoveries have been the silver lining of hope in my tunneled life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1518627184767-NNVXN2ZLFD0OZSZ33GZU/writersbone.jpeg News 18 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: February 2018 This debut novel shows what decisions an artist has to make when someone else’s tragedy will be shown to the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1520012643909-L6SK9XHN9YQWDRJEV3FS/february-2018-must-reads.jpg News - momadvice.com February 2018 Must-Reads Looking for a thriller with a plot that you probably have never considered? Self-Portrait With Boy is one of the most inventive plot concepts that I’ve read in a long time and absolutely captivated me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517245724181-T692T02ONC2KDICXUVJF/Screen+Shot+2018-01-29+at+12.07.49+PM.png News - Brooklyn Daily Eagle Rachel Lyon, host of reading series Ditmas Lit, to launch debut novel at Books Are Magic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a40758e4b01d62e11a247d/1517517013142-V90M3BG7AGG3JQH6H2DP/vol1-feb2018.jpg News - Vol. 1 Brooklyn Vol.1 Brooklyn’s February 2018 Book Preview There’s plenty to ponder in Rachel Lyon’s debut novel–from the way in which it evokes a particular neighborhood in a particular place in time to the way that it raises questions about art, tragedy, and exploitation. It’s a heady array of things to consider, deftly handled in fictional form.