Nicole Sellew is a writer and English teacher based in Connecticut and New York City. In 2022, she received an MLitt in fiction from the University of St Andrews, where she is currently studying for her PhD.
Sellew's new novel is Lover Girl. The publisher calls it a "picaresque debut of forbidden desire, in which a young woman escapes NYC to work on her novel in the Hamptons, falling into a downward spiral of lovers and other destructive behaviors."
At Lit Hub the author tagged seven Hamptons novels to read this winter. One title on the list:
Sag Harbor by Colson WhiteheadRead about another novel on Sellew's list.
A coming-of-age story set in Sag Harbor in the eighties, told through the perspective of a prep-school teen boy spending his summer at the beach and navigating the racial politics of the East End. Read it if you like cocaine or The Smiths.
Sag Harbor is among Brittany K. Allen's five novels to read if you’re fascinated by the Black bourgeoisie, Benjamin Markovits's top ten stories of male friendship, Amanda Brainerd's eight books to take you back to the Eighties, and Jeff Somers's top ten books to take you someplace you’ve likely never been.
--Marshal Zeringue
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