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Karen Tucker’s novel, Bewilderness, is a powerful read. Set in rural North Carolina, the book explores drug addiction through the story of Irene and her…
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When writing her novel, Songs in Ursa Major, Emma Brodie was inspired when she learned about the relationship between Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.Her…
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After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he saw with greater clarity the rural-urban divide overtaking the national conversation. I recently spoke…
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Zakiya Dalila Harris has written a thriller set in the publishing industry. I know, words you never expect to hear in the same sentence. But her novel,…
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Who Is Maud Dixon? is a tale of literary identity theft. And that’s about all I can tell you.When I spoke with Alexandra Andrews about her novel, I…
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When you hear the name “John Green” you might think of him as a Vlogbrother, with his brother Hank. Or you might recall that he wrote the book The Fault…
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Joan Silber is the author of nine works of fiction, including Improvement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.Silber is known…
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Maggie Shipstead’s novel Great Circle tells the story of two women who lived nearly a century apart—a daredevil aviator and a recently shamed Hollywood…
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Renee Rosen’s books have taken place in Chicago in the 1950s, New York City in the 1960s, at Chess Records during the Civil Rights Movement, and in…
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Early Morning Riser is a novel about a woman who moves to a small town in Michigan to teach school and ends up falling in love with the local playboy.It’s…
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In her timely novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade introduces readers to a family in a small New Mexico town. Beginning and ending in Holy Week, The Five Wounds spans a year in which 33-year-old Amadeo tries to redeem himself, his martyr-ish mother, Yolanda, hides an illness, and his 15-year-old daughter, Angel, becomes an unwed mother who out-matures all characters combined.
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There is a blurb from Mat Johnson on the back of How I Learned to Hate in Ohio that reads: “David Stuart MacLean is a writer who can break your heart,…