How Columbia Journalism School professor Samuel G. Freedman has helped hundreds of students get coveted book contracts. Read more
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Year: 2025
‘We Lived on the Horizon’ by Erika Swyler
Swyler achieves a seemingly impossible amount of sophisticated worldbuilding using an economy of vibrant, graceful prose. The story transports and transforms, alchemizing a combination of mystery, romance, and science fiction into an impactful exploration of the importance of connection, the evolutionary nature of identity, and the inevitability of revolution. Affecting relationships and a sinuous, kaleidoscopic third-person narrative further define and develop the exquisitely rendered characters. Read more
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David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89
The author of 15 novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as plays and screenplays, Mr. Lodge was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his work has been translated into dozens of languages. His best-known work, “Campus Trilogy,” dramatized the brief heyday of English literature as a discipline and the jet-setting lifestyle of its professoriate. Read more
The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That.
You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft. Read more
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