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Julie Orringer Explores Varian Fry's Unbearable Moral Conundrum
Orringer’s sophomore novel, 'The Flight Portfolio,' follows Varian Fry, who helped thousands of refugees escape during WWII.
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Steven Rowley Tackles Jackie O's Book Biz Years In His New Novel
Rowley’s 'The Editor' tells the story of a struggling writer whose novel gets acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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The Mystery of Love: Spotlight on Michelle Cox
A Veil Removed, book four in Cox's beloved Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, blends mystery, history, and romance in an unforgettable story. (Sponsored)
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In Susan Choi's Latest, Doing Everything Doesn't Mean Knowing Everything
Choi’s fifth novel, 'Trust Exercise,' is a narrative-bending story set (at first) at a performing arts high school in the 1980s.
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The Lee Brothers Leave the Cookbook Section
After three cookbooks, Matt and Ted Lee take readers behind the scenes of the catering world in 'Hotbox.'
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Uncovering America's Hidden History: Spotlight on Thom Hartmann
Progressive political commentator Hartmann launches his new book series with a powerful examination of the underlying forces that got America so hooked on guns. (Sponsored)
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Siri Hustvedt Is Writing to Discover
Hustvedt’s genre-bending novel 'Memories of the Future' is a semi-fantastical, semi-autobiographical tale featuring an aspiring novelist from Minnesota in 1970s New York.
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Nina Revoyr Spins an L.A. Story
The author's sixth novel, 'A Student of History,' examines class and race in Los Angeles.
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Elizabeth Bear Writes Where the Technology Breaks
The author combines pulse-pounding action and weightier issues in her new space opera, 'Ancestral Night.'
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Marlon James Spins a Tale of Tales
In 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf,' the first book in James’s Dark Star trilogy, one riveting story is made up of many oblique accounts, woven complexly by many tellers.
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Eliot Pattison Pens a Tale of History's Orphans
Pattison’s 10th Insp. Shan Tao Yun mystery, 'Bones of the Earth,' is about China’s fraught relationship with Tibet.
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Writers to Watch Spring 2019: Anticipated Debuts
These geographically and thematically diverse fiction debuts include vivid portrayals of several African countries, the Russian tundra, and, somewhat less exotically, Houston.
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Amy Hempel Talks Dogs, Tattoos, and Her Latest Book
Hempel’s first collection in over a decade, 'Sing to It,' further cements her status as one of America’s finest story writers.
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Witch Historian: Spotlight on Katherine Howe
In 'The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs,' Howe revisits the world of 'The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane' to delve into the era of the Salem witch trials, (Sponsored)
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Esmé Weijun Wang Writes Through the Story
Wang’s essay collection 'The Collected Schizophrenias' explores how she lives and works while contending with the effects of chronic illness.
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Elizabeth Letts Finds the Wizard Behind Oz
Letts’s novel 'Finding Dorothy' explores the real bond between Judy Garland and Maud Gage Baum, L. Frank Baum’s wife.
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Dani Shapiro Peeks Inside the 'Black Box' In Her New Book
In her memoir 'Inheritance,' Shapiro writes about discovering that her father was not her biological parent.
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Susan Conley Heads Back to China In 'Elsey Come Home'
'The Foremost Good Fortune' author's sophomore novel finds its protagonist struggling with alcoholism and the pressures of modern life at a Chinese wellness retreat.
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Tosh Berman Pens a Bohemian Rhapsody of a Memoir
In his memoir, 'Tosh,' Berman, son of artist Wallace Berman, takes readers into the art world of 1960s and ’70s Los Angeles.
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Spotlight on Charles R. Levine
In this moving memoir, a Vietnam draftee rediscovers himself later in life after reflecting on an old friendship. (Sponsored)