A Summertime Swoon Tash Aw’s The South
The relationship helps Jay achieve a sense of selfhood that promises to outlast the usual parameters of a summer romance. In a sense, he’s coming out to himself.
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Aaron Hamburger
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Aaron Hamburger is the author of the story collection THE VIEW FROM STALIN’S HEAD winner of the Rome Prize in Literature, and the novels FAITH FOR BEGINNERS (a Lambda Literary Award nominee), NIRVANA IS HERE (winner of a Bronze Medal in the 2019 Foreword Indie Awards), and HOTEL CUBA (winner of the Bridge Book Award). His new novel THE SHIVA BANDIT is due out in 2026. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Tin House, Poets & Writers, O, the Oprah Magazine, and many others. He is the winner of the 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from Lambda Literary. He teaches writing at the George Washington University and the Stonecoast MFA Program.