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Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo
Elaine Castillo, named one of “30 of the Planet’s Most Exciting Young People” by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the Bay Area. Her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, was a finalist for numerous prizes including the Elle Big Book Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize and was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library.


We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing

Elaine Castillo on How White Supremacy Makes for Terrible Readers, and the Value of Reading Like a Free, Mysterious Person
July 26, 2022  By Elaine Castillo
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There is No Single Voice of America

Elaine Castillo on Empire, Untranslated Words and American Fiction
January 17, 2018  By Elaine Castillo
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