Cover Photo: details from cover of The Neopolitan Novels
details from cover of The Neopolitan Novels

Elena Ferrante and Me: An Irrational Essay

“I felt betrayed. Not because she was no longer anonymous; I had never cared about that. But because she is not Elena.”

The day before an earthquake I spent five delirious hours in the Naples airport. I spent ten minutes outside smoking a cigarette. I thought: This place is pale yellow and has unusual palm trees. It had tropicality with European gravity. There was a blue-lavender volcano that I could not see.

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Harlan County, U.S.A.

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Saturday Night Fever

Young God

The Story of a New Name. 

My Brilliant Friend

The Blue Fairy

The Story of the Lost Child,

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Those Who Leave and Those Who StayTheNew York Times

Ultraluminous

Veronica

Katherine Faw is from North Carolina. Her debut novel, Young God, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by The Times Literary Supplement, The Houston Chronicle, BuzzFeed, and more. Ultraluminous, a novel, is forthcoming in 2017. She lives in Brooklyn.