From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, there’s a long tradition of writing about eventful summers where personal crises unfold across long days and languid nights. Ronnie Scott’s The Adversary is a summer novel about young people exploring their sexuality and sociability. Madeleine Watts’s The Inland Sea is the story of a young woman’s fraught final summer in Sydney. Rebecca Harkins-Cross asks two these exciting young authors about how the intensity, transience and torpor of the season plays a role in their new novels and in literature at large.

From F. Scott Fitzgerald&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Great Gatsby&nbsp;to Michael Chabon&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, there&rsquo;s a long tradition of writing about eventful summers where personal crises unfold across long days and languid nights.&nbsp;Ronnie Scott&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Adversary&nbsp;is a summer novel about young people exploring their sexuality and sociability. Madeleine Watts&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Inland Sea is the story of a young woman&rsquo;s fraught final summer in Sydney.&nbsp;Rebecca Harkins-Cross asks two these exciting young authors about how the intensity, transience and torpor of the season plays a role in their new novels and in literature at large.

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