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That Which Calls Us: On Writing About God’s Word
“For many years he was the revered abbot of the monastery of Suppentonia, built in the mountains under a giant rock and above a steep cliff. One day, he heard the voice of an angel calling him by name...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
If heaven exists, it must exist in the form of a clean and quiet house, a comfortable chair near a snoring dog, a glass of cold wine, and a lapful of short stories. I love the short story form with a...
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6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction
I like difficult women. They are the disrupters, the kind of women that break the rules and push the boundaries, the kind of women that are driven and ambitious and uncompromising, that take risks and...
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25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall
It may not be technically fall just yet, but the weather is beginning to cool (at least here in the Northeast), the days are getting shorter, and Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back on the menu—so it’s...
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28 new books out today!
September is slowly turning its pages, and, if you’d like do the same, you’re in for luck. Today, you’ll find a veritable cornucopia of exciting new books to consider, including new fiction from famed...
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The Vaster Wilds
She kept running, though too tired, she ran until the light of the moon waned and her body in its many hours of running had settled into a hot exhilaration. All at once, she breathed the cold with...
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For Your Listening Pleasure: The Best Audiobooks of September
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * SEPTEMBER FICTION The Fraud by Zadie Smith| Read by Zadie Smith...
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Lauren Groff on Writing Her Own Robinson Crusoe
Books & Books recently had the pleasure of hosting three-time National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Lauren Groff, presenting her new novel, The Vaster Wilds. The New York Times calls...
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Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female...
The idea of exploring mature female characters came to me while rereading Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa, I realized with a jolt, is only fifty-one.There are moments when she feels like a girl of eighteen,...
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Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida
Novelist Lauren Groff joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss the new independent bookstore she and her husband are planning in Gainesville, Florida. The Lynx, which Groff...
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Leslie Jamison! Michiko Kakutani! The wildness of Old English! 23 new books...
It’s another Tuesday, and that means that a bevy of beautiful new books are out. And it’s a brilliant bevy indeed: below, you’ll find twenty-three new titles to consider that span an incredible range,...
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Literary Rashomon: 10 Novels with Rotating Perspectives
When a novel is written from rotating perspectives within a family, it creates a richness and depth in the narrative. As readers, we can see how different people in the same household interpret the...
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These are the “most influential” writers of the year.
This week, TIME magazine published its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year. Usually, when this list comes out, I complain (to the universe, I guess) that there aren’t enough...
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