MEDIA COVERAGE OF the old drift
in the news
The Old Drift received the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction (with Yiyun Li); the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction; and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Shortlisted for the L.A. Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction; longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown.
On end-of-year lists for 2019, including The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019; Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019; The Atlantic’s Best 15 Books of 2019; BuzzFeed’s Best Books of 2019; NPR’s Favorite Books of 2019; Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2019; Kirkus Review’s Best Fiction of 2019; Tor.com’s Best Books of 2019.
One of The New York Times’ 9 Recommended Books for the first week of April. Featured as Amazon’s debut of the month, and as one of The New York Times’ 12 New Books to Watch for, USA Today’s 5 Books Not to Miss, Entertainment Weekly’s 20 New Books to Read, and The Millions Most Anticipated Books for March, 2019.
Featured as a debut writer to watch by Publishers Weekly and Barnes & Noble. On the cover of Kirkus Review with a feature profile.
On lists of 2019 books anticipated by the Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian, O Magazine, The Millions, BuzzFeed, HuffPo, LitHub, Nylon, Elle, Vulture, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, PopSugar, Southern Living, Bookish, Vo1. Brooklyn, and Bustle.
INTERVIEWS & Profiles
REVIEWS of the novel
The New York Times Book Review (Salman Rushdie, cover)
The New York Times (Dwight Garner)
★ Kirkus Reviews ★
RELATED ESSAYS
“The Afronaut,” The New Yorker
“When Sci-Fi Comes True,” The New York Times