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Watch President Biden award Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan their National...
Today, President Joe Biden will award 12 Americans a National Humanities Medal at the White House. Dr. Jill Biden, a woman of letters, will watch on, as can you via a live stream beginning at 4:30 pm...
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What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?
With its sweeping popularity, HBO’s The Last of Us left me wondering: what are we looking for in our pandemic stories now? I stumbled into a pandemic story in the introduction of Jenny Odell’s new...
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Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself
Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. New...
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Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done
Lake Tom by Ann Patchett, is out now from Harper, so we asked the author a few questions. * What time of day do you write (and why)? Ann Patchett: In the morning. I wake up smart and talented and...
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27 new books out today!
It’s officially August, and, because it’s also officially Tuesday, that means that there’s a myriad of intriguing new books out today. As many of us continue to face sweltering heat, I hope you’ll be...
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AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of August
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * AUGUST FICTION The Apology by Jimin Han| Read by Kathleen Kim AudioFile...
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Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love was first published in the late summer of 1989, when I was twenty-five. In those pre-internet days, my best friend Lucy was living in Scotland, and we read the novel...
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Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups
Years ago, sitting in a restaurant with my boyfriend at the time and another couple, I watched as my boyfriend picked up the bottle of wine we’d ordered and refilled only his glass. I remember...
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The Best Audiobooks of 2023
Each month, for your literary listening pleasure, our friends at AudioFile Magazine bring us the cream of the audiobook crop. Now, at 2023 draws to a close, they’ve rounded up the very best audiobooks...
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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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