Fall 2021 Reading
FC2’s Fall 2021 reading features JoAnna Novak, Yannick Murphy, and Marc Anthony Richardson.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Meaningful Work by JoAnna Novak
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, Joanna Novak’s short fiction debut is a stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: By The Time You Read This by Yannick Murphy
Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Yannick Murphy’s gathering of luminescent stories illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation.
Fall 2021 FC2 Release: Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice, Messiahs centers on two nameless lovers: a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner “exonerated” after more than two years on death row.
FC2 in Conversation With JoAnna Novak
Fiction Collective Two had the chance to talk with the author of one of this fall’s upcoming FC2 novels! Please find our conversation with JoAnna Novak about her book “Meaningful Work” below
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
The Book of Kane and Margaret
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
Meaningful Work
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
By the Time You Read This
A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation
Messiahs
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice