A Book Review of R.O.Kwon's <The Incendiaries> What an odd book. That’s not meant in a bad way. R.O. Kwon’s debut novel, “The Incendiaries,” deals with themes of obsession and how people fill the holes inside themselves occasioned by loss.

“The Incendiaries” is a sharp little novel as hard to ignore as a splinter in your eye. You keep blinking at these pages, struggling to bring the story into some comforting focus, convinced you can look past its unsettling intimations. But R.O. Kwon, the 35-year-old Korean American author, doesn’t...

R.O.Kwon's <The Incederies>, selected BUSTLE's The 30 Best Fiction Books Of 2018 When he meets her in their first year in college, Will immediately becomes infatuates with sad, glamorous Phoebe. But as Phoebe gets pulled into the mysterious world of John Leal and his cult, Will struggles to...

First-person accounts can be difficult to pull off, but among those who succeed are Akwaeke Emezi, R.O. Kwon, Shaun Prescott and Glen Skwerer

Stories on Stage Davis returns to the Pence Gallery at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, with fiction by R.O. Kwon and Colin Winnette. R.O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and author of “The Incendiaries.”