She was well into her career as a prolific author of historical crime fiction when a murderous past was publicly revealed and dramatized in a 1994 movie. Read more
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‘White Cat, Black Dog’ by Kelly Link
Link has a boundless imagination and a sharp sense of humor, but even in tales filled with vampires, monsters, and a menagerie of talking animals, she never forgets the humanity of her characters, even when she puts them through their paces. She’s no sentimentalist, to be sure, but she writes with a seemingly limitless compassion, which anchors the stories in something enduring, something more real than real. Read more
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The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis
Portis’s genius went beyond character in the strictly literary sense, to reveal something about moral character and many somethings about the character of this country. Read more
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How Poetry and Performance Combined to Become a New Genre
In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. Read more
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Yiyun Li’s ‘The Book of Goose’ Wins PEN/Faulkner Award
Yiyun Li’s novel “The Book of Goose,” the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Read more
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Is True Love Possible? Readers Are Turning to This 1990s Novel for Answers
Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships. Read more
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Who Really Owns Your E-Books?
Recent automatic updates to e-book editions of works by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and Agatha Christie are a reminder of who really owns your digital media. Read more
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The National Book Foundation Announces its ‘5 Under 35’ Winners
5 Under 35 honorees are writers from around the world, under the age of 35, who have published their first and only book of fiction—either a short story collection or a novel—within the last five years. Read more
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Parent Says the Bible Contains Porn and Should be Removed from School Libraries
The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled. Read more
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2023 Whiting Awards Recognize 10 Emerging Writers
The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which were announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize’s judges. The Whiting Awards aim to “recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent, giving most winners their first chance to devote themselves full time to their own writing, or to take bold new risks in their work…” Read more
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