From a head-spinner by Don DeLillo to Emma Kline’s debut, here are the new and upcoming books you need to pick up
As part of our toast to literary New York, which has included original short stories and talks with some of the city’s hottest writers, we’re rounding up the 2016 books by NYC authors we’re most excited about. Dig into these novels, which tackle everything from slavery and biomedicine to the Manson family and Parisian opera star.
In the long-awaited second novel from the Whiting Award winner at the center of the NYC lit scene, Chee focuses on a self-made woman, Lilliet Berne, as she rises from an American orphan to a celebrated soprano in the Paris Opera.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, out now
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Whether highlighting rockers or revolutionaries, Spiotta’s compact yet conceptual fiction is drawn toward the invention of the self. In her fourth novel, the Guggenheim Fellow looks at the lives of two women—one makes documentaries, the other seduces high-powered men in Hollywood—and packs in plenty of warm wit. Scribner, $25, out now
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