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Colson Whitehead’s vivid, noirish Harlem Shuffle – whose sequel, Crook Manifesto, arrives in print this month – features Ray Carney, a wise-cracking, hard-working furniture salesman with connections to New York’s criminal underworld.Carney, whose story is told over three acts, is the son of a long-deceased local hoodlum and is “only slightly bent when it comes to being crooked”. As the proprietor of Carney’s Furniture, he serves the black clientele in his neighbourhood, selling “gently used” items with a generous credit…

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At the start of Matt Rowland Hill’s bracingly candid memoir, we find the author locked in a bathroom about to shoot up heroin. Having observed with satisfaction that the bathroom is clean, he notes that if he could change one thing, “it would be the fact that it’s in a church filled with mourners at the funeral of a friend of mine who died from an overdose of the same drugs I’m about to mainline into my bloodstream”.Subtitled “A Memoir of Faith, Family and Addiction”, Original Sins tells of Hill’s difficult childhood as…

Kamila Shamsie’s latest novel chronicles the friendship of two women from their early teens through to middle age. Zahra is the daughter of a sports journalist and Maryam is due to inherit her father’s luxury leather goods business. We first meet them when they are 14-year-olds in 1980s Karachi hanging out at each other’s houses and obsessing over school cliques, boys and their love of Jackie Collins novels and George Michael. Humming in the background is the new political dawn represented by Benazir Bhutto after the…

When Nazneen is born prematurely in 1967 in rural Bangladesh, her survival is left to fate rather than medical intervention. But, after an anxious silence, she finally splutters into life.On seeing that she is a girl, her father says: “Never mind. What can you do?” “What could not be changed must be borne,” the adult Nazneen reflects. “And since nothing could be changed, everything had to be borne.”Fate and freedom are the themes of Brick Lane, Monica Ali’s bestselling 2003 novel, dramatised last year for radio by Tanika…

Meta has another new AI model on the docket, and this one seems perfectly engineered for the land of tomorrow if that utopian future is filled with nothing but deepfakes and modified audio. Like AI image generators, Voicebox generates synthetic voices based on a simple text prompt from scratch—or, in actuality—sound from thousands of audiobooks.If An AI Reworks Copyrighted Images, Is It Art? | Future TechOn Friday, Meta announced its new Voicebox AI that can create voice clips using simple text prompts. In a video, CEO…

The title of Richard E Grant’s memoir A Pocketful of Happiness – which won the British Book awards’ best nonfiction audiobook prize – refers to an instruction from his late wife, Joan Washington, that he should find “a pocketful of happiness” every day to help him through his grief after her death.“Honouring my wife’s edict became my New Year’s resolution and my mantra,” he says. “Having never followed any religion, brought up to regard it all as superstition, Joan’s simple challenge has proved to be profoundly…

A gripping tale of love across the divide, Trespasses – which has been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize – is the debut novel of Louise Kennedy, a former chef who began writing in her mid 40s. Set in a garrison town near Belfast in 1975, it revolves around 24-year-old Cushla Lavery, a Catholic primary school teacher who also helps out behind the bar at the family pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a married Protestant barrister who is twice her age and who defends Catholic men he believes have been unjustly…

Chuck Tingle is known for his cheeky erotic comedies which he first started publishing in 2014. For his first full-length, traditionally published novel, Tingle has turned to a different set of inspirations. Horror movies, sleepaway summer camp stories, and queer survival are all a part of Camp Damascus. And now, io9 is excited to announce that the audiobook for Camp Damascus is going to be narrated by none other than Mara Wilson. Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechCamp Damascus follows a young woman named Rose “as…

Spanning nearly 20 years of writing, from 2004 onwards, Burning Questions is Margaret Atwood’s third book of essays and miscellaneous writing, all of which, she notes in the introduction, have been “tightly connected to their own time and place”. Why the title? “Possibly because the questions we’ve been faced with so far in the 21st century are more than urgent. Every age thinks that about its own crises, of course, but surely this era feels different. First, the planet. Is the world itself truly burning up? Is it we…