The Common Press is excited to host an online discussion between two exciting new queer voices, Jiaming Tang and Nathan Newman, as they discuss their debut novels, Cinema Love and How to Leave the House, on June 28th from 7 pm to 8:30 pm.
This event will be fully online, so join us on instagram live for an engaging conversation with these talented authors. Signed copies will be available for purchase from the Common Press website and in store.
Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love is a sweeping debut novel about gay men in rural China, the women who marry them, and the secret cinema where their husbands cruised for love. Nathan Newman's book is told with tenderness, wit, humour, and beautiful prose, How to Leave the House is a dazzling and extraordinary novel about our connection to others, happy endings, unhappy endings, and what happens when the sex toy you ordered is accidentally delivered to your neighbour.
Most books that claim to be funny aren’t actually all that funny. How to Leave the House is a are exception - genuinely hilarious, utterly obnoxious, impressively daring- (Keiran Goddard, author of Hourglass about How to Leave the House)
Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life, this intricately plotted novel asks whether, in the end, it is better to forgive or to forget.’ - (New Yorker about Cinema Love)
About Jiaming Tang
Jiaming Tang is a queer immigrant writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is an Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, and his stories and essays have been published in AGNI, Lit Hub, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere. CINEMA LOVE is his first book. Jiaming Tang travelled across the breadth of the UK for a pre-publication tour in October 2023, meeting booksellers and doing events. He took part in the John Murray proof party tour to packed out venues in Cheltenham, Durham, and Ilkley literature festivals. He did an event at Waterstones Kensington in conversation with C Pam Zhang and visited bookshops in London, Bristol and Bath. He will be back in the UK for events in London, Oxford, Leeds and elsewhere from 3rd June 2024.
With a wise, masterful compassion, Cinema Love announces Jiaming Tang as an essential new voice in literature. I absolutely loved this book.’ Emily Habeck, author of Shark Heart
The pages crackle with the tension of a Hollywood thriller... There are elements here of Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Tom Crewe’s The New Life’ - John Self, The Times
About Nathan Newman (Author)
Nathan (they/them) is a 26-year-old writer and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction and they have been published in literary journals in the US and several university anthologies in the UK. As well as writing, Nathan works as an usher at a cinema.