Bonus! Aube Rey Lescure: The Existential Crisis of Launching Your Debut Novel

We talk to Aube Rey Lescure just days away from launching her debut, RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST. And guess what? It’s not all the dream she’d thought it would be. We talk about what a lot writers go through when publishing their first books (or even their tenth), how she got to this stage in the first place, and how she’s forging ahead on her second novel.

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Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. She grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer. Her debut novel, River East, River West, is forthcoming from William Morrow/HarperCollins in January 2024. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Millions. WBUR, The Florida Review Online, Litro, and more. Her essay “At the Bend of the Road” was selected for Best American Essays 2022. She currently works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment. 

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