Sandra Newman
Sandra Newman is the author of four previous novels; The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award), Cake, The Country of Ice Cream Star (longlisted for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Literature) and The Heavens. She co-authored the hugely successful How Not to Write a Novel with Howard Mittelmark. She has also written The Western Lit Survival Kit, Read This Next, and a memoir, Changeling. She lives in New York.
Publications
Sandra Newman on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 156
Horse
Sandra Newman
‘It was a rescue horse, but a horse.’
Memoir by Sandra Newman.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1952: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Sandra Newman
Sandra Newman on why Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard is the best book of 1952.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview
Sandra Newman
‘While you’re still arguing you still have hope.’
Fiction | Issue 145
The Heavens
Sandra Newman
‘It was one of those parties where no one knew the hostess.’