Dizz Tate News Today

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

The best novels of 2023 featuring new books from authors including Rose Tremain, Adam Biles, Stephen King, Paul Lynch, and Zadie Smith.

It can be hard to take a risk on a new writer – these books make it well worth doing so

New books available at the Mount Airy Public Library…

Surrealist writers push the boundaries of language and plot, taking an oblique approach to the quotidian in order to hint at higher potentials for reality. It’s within this realm that Sarah Rose Etter plays, employing surrealism to unveil deeper revelations and risks in her writing.

It’s time for another Middle Grade Book Club pick. For April, we are featuring 2010 Newbery Medal winner “When You Reach Me” by Rebecca Stead. This book brings together mystery,

In Dizz Tate's new novel Brutes, a group of 13-year- old Florida girls try to find one of their classmates when she goes missing.

Told in part in the choral voice by a gang of pre-adolescent Floridian girls, this buzzy debut initially recalls Jeffrey Eugenides 1990s classic The Virgin Suicides.

Two new books — “Brutes,” by Dizz Tate, and “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel — challenge and reshape the way stories about abused and murdered women are told.

In plunging us into the collective mind of a group of girls watching the search for a missing girl, author Dizz Tate creates an original, stylistically ambitious take on well-trodden subject matter.