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REVIEW: The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go
Both saga and romance, <em>The Steady Running of the Hour</em>, Justin Go’s debut novel, is an expression of love and angst told in many locations and points of time, spanning a century and...
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CELEBRITY BOOK REVIEW: Hillary Rodham Clinton on “The Possibilities” by Kaui...
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“I am sitting behind my desk watching the downpour when I catch the scent of bacon,” begins Cate Dicharry’s The Fine Art of Fucking Up from Unnamed Press, “Dunbar is in the building again, despite the...
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The breadth of Heidi Julavits’s career is sometimes hard to believe. Julavits is a founding editor of The Believer, an associate professor at Columbia University, a recipient of the PEN/New England...
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In the age of social media, interacting with our favorite authors has gotten much easier. Using platforms such as Twitter or Facebook, fans can pose direct questions, “like” recent status...
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After a pre-publication press embargo, the reviews of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman are finally rolling in. Although it may seem like everyone you know has an opinion about the eagerly anticipated...
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