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We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
Set in Oakland, California, All the Tiny Beauties begins with a kitchen fire that sends the reclusive Webster Jackson to the home of his new neighbor, Colleen, who discovers him on her doorstep wearing a lacy peignoir, his house in flames.
In Part 5 of Acre’s Holiday Sampler, we check in with Jenn Scott, whose story collection, Her Adult Life, just made the longlist for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In the passage Jenn selected, two restaurant staffers and antagonists—the...
We made the list! Actually, the lists—Small Press Distribution’s bestseller lists. Congrats to T. R. Hummer, whose AFTER THE AFTERLIFE is a poetry bestseller, and to Jenn Scott, whose HER ADULT LIFE is hitting it in fiction!
Nicola Mason, Editor of Acre Books, interviews Jenn Scott, author of Her Adult LifeNicola Mason: Some might characterize the stories in Her Adult Life as grim, yet I find them hopeful, largely because characters who are trapped, either by mindset or circumstance or...
Acre’s debut story collection, Jenn Scott’s Her Adult Life, has garnered a great review from Kirkus. Huzzah!
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