To author Mona Awad, La Jolla is a bright gem of a location: a sunny and sparkling respite from her home in Boston. She also sees it as a perfect setting for darkness, as explored in her fourth book, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story follows Samantha Heather Mackey, who couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New ...

Four years ago, the novelist Mona Awad went to a high-end hotel spa for a facial that seemed to go on for hours. Lying flat on her back in a robe as an aesthetician massaged her face and tried to sell ...

Most nights, Belle — the protagonist of “Rouge,” Mona Awad’s dark, enchanted new novel about beauty and its pitfalls — falls asleep to the sound of skincare YouTube videos, her face coated in ...

AWAD: I recently read an advance copy of Heather McGowan’s forthcoming novel, “Friends of the Museum.” It’s very funny and a beautifully told story of 24 hours at a museum from the perspectives of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The result is the beguiling and darkly funny duel prequel/sequel, We Love You, Bunny (out September 23), in which the Bunnies get ...

If you've read Mona Awad's 2019 novel "Bunny," you may not be surprised to learn she's a bit skeptical of tightknit friend groups. "There's just something innately fascist to me about a group," she ...

Two authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that their copyrighted books were used to train ChatGPT without their consent. Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad claim that ChatGPT generates "very ...