Emma Straub

Emma Straub is the author of the novella Fly-Over State. Her stories and essays have been published by The Paris Review, Barrelhouse, The Saint Ann’s Review, Cousin Corrine’s Reminder, The L Magazine, and many other journals. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband.)

Books Authored

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Author(s):
Emma Straub
Genre(s):
Children, 2-5, Picture Book, Humor

Very Good Hats

January 23, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Cindy Helms

“Hats off to Straub and Gómez for creating a book that every children’s book writer/illustrator will wish they had thought of. Very Good Hats will remain a favorite . .

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Author(s):
Emma Straub
Genre(s):
Time Travel, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Families, Women’s Fiction

This Time Tomorrow: A Novel

June 15, 2022
Reviewed by: 
Ellen Whitfield

“leaves the reader with a profound sense of satisfaction.”

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Author(s):
Emma Straub
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

The Vacationers: A Novel

July 23, 2014
Reviewed by: 
Vinton Rafe McCabe

“. . . hopefully, with the cold, dark days of winter soon upon us, Emma Straub will huddle up next to the radiator and return to the literature that is in her blood.”

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Author(s):
Emma Straub
Genre(s):
Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

August 24, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Vinton Rafe McCabe

“. . . a potboiler of a thing, something that would have, during the studio era, been the stuff of a B picture.”

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Author(s):
Emma Straub
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

Other People We Married

February 19, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Vinton Rafe McCabe

First, some simple truths: Emma Straub is the real deal: a writer whose gift it is to take the ordinary and, through the selection of perfectly telling details and sublime and sometimes brutal obse

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