Woman & Home

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Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Diane Chamberlain is known for writing suspenseful novels with heart. Her new novel, The Last House on the Street, focuses on a town divided by prejudice and a compelling mystery that will keep you turning

The Millions

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In the past year I have read several books related to my writing project, most of them connected with old documents and newspapers, as well as some classical works, many short stories and foreign novels translated into Arabic. On the Iraqi front, per

Guernica Magazine

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In “After the Winter,” the novelist imagines a new relationship with ghosts, literary and otherwise. The post Guadalupe Nettel and the Extraterritoriality of Latin America appeared first on Guernica.

Poets & Writers

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In his previous writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel (Little, Brown, 2007), the author of more than fifty critically acclaimed books offered the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this conversationa

The Millions

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According to Majumdar’s editor, Jordan Pavlin, A Burning “has the force of an epic tragedy and the economy and restraint of a poem.” The post Writers to Watch: Spring 2020 appeared first on The Millions.

Independent on Saturday

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SET in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and London, the debut novel Love Leiyah by Durban author Lishantha Govinthu, under the pseudonym Shan Lee, explores love, family and boundaries in a classic story full of surprises. The novel will be launched at the

Writer's Digest

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Rachel Sussman grew up in the suburbs of New York City, graduated from Brown University with a degree in English and American literature and began her publishing career at Scribner, where she honed her editorial skills for four years. Following a yea

The Atlantic

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Few things are more excruciating for a writer than confronting the words written by her younger self. Her tone is bound to seem stilted, her thoughts alien or insignificant. Did I really think that? she wonders, aghast. Worse yet: Did I really commit

Guernica Magazine

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On Andrew Martin’s debut novel, Early Work. The post A Deliberately Wonky Sense of Morality appeared first on Guernica.

Writing Magazine

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lla Allbright has an HR day job and writes commercial women’s fiction set in her home county of Dorset. Her first novel in this genre, The Last Charm, was published in 2020 by One More Chapter, an imprint of HarperCollins. Ella also writes as Nikki M

The Millions

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Apparently books about racism and immigration are seriously back in demand. This prompted me to take a dip back in the current pool to see what’s new. The post A Year in Reading: Marie Myung-Ok Lee appeared first on The Millions.

The Caravan

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I WAS SLIGHTLY NERVOUS before my first meeting with the author Mirza Athar Baig, in the winter of 2017, at the Big M restaurant in Lahore’s Shadman Market. I had recently signed a book deal for my translation of his 2014 Urdu novel Hassan’s State of

History Revealed

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Why did you decide to become a novelist after spending two decades in the world of politics? I always knew I didn’t want to be in politics forever, and I’d toyed for about 10 years with the idea of writing a novel. Eventually, my boss retired and it

New Zealand Listener

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The final pages of Jokha Alharthi’s ground-breaking novel Celestial Bodies were briefly under threat in the English translation. Her editor wanted to lose the dream-like sequence. But whereas the Omani writer agreed to alter the Arabic text by adding

The Atlantic

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Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries, which catalogs the life of its protagonist for the span of a year, is a sharp exploration of the daily effort to preserve shared truths.

Literary Hub

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Fourteen years in the writing, and 1,664 pages in length, theMystery.doc is perhaps one of the most unusual novels ever published, combining photographs, pop-up ads, web chats, lines of code with Hollywood film stills and passages from literary class

Literary Hub

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Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs) wins the $10,000 Young Lions Award; other finalists are Clare Beams (We Show What We Have Learned), Brit Bennett, (The Mothers), Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun) and Kaitlyn Greenidge (We Love You

Literary Hub

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The Hay Festival, now in its 21st year, brings writers and readers together in a free digital space of thoughtful conversation, storytelling, comedy, and family fun. This year, the Festival has been streamed live with a star-studded line-up of speake

Literary Hub

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Working as a literary agent means being privy to a full canon’s worth of submitted novels that the world will never see. Naturally, a good many of these pitches will always be chasing the news. Writers want their stories to seem timely, so if there’s

Literary Hub

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A confession: I did not go to boarding school. I have, however, long been intrigued by the boarding school novel as a kind of subgenre, the way the best of them intensify traditional coming-of-age narratives by confining the story to a space that is

Literary Hub

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“There’s something about the novel that resists innovation,” J.G. Ballard said. He said it more than once; it was something he was fond of saying even as he himself innovated, working away beneath and pulling up the floorboards of literary tradition,

Writing Magazine

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Jo Fletcher Books is part of the Quercus family. Jo proudly states that the imprint is ‘a small but perfectly formed list’, publishing ‘critically acclaimed, award-winning and unputdownable novels right across the fantastical spectrum, encompassing e

Literary Hub

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I’m supposed to be writing a speech about my new novel, The White City. It’s a March morning, no sun. I’m standing by my secretary desk. I’ve shut the doors to the rest of the apartment and have been on the verge of sitting down to begin, but each ti

The Millions

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Their books have an international flavor, including Cold War intrigue and a sweeping novel about a historically black community in Nova Scotia. The post Ten Writers to Watch in 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

Literary Hub

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This is Joining Conversation, The Virtual Book Channel’s special event roundtable. Today’s conversation involves a small, diverse and wonderfully smart group of contemporary Native American writers. There’s thriller writer David Heska Wanbli Weiden,

Writing Magazine

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Wet Cement Press is a micropress started by a group of writers who wanted to give ‘the unusual novel’ a life in book form. The current editorial team still have tastes which ‘run toward the lyrical and spontaneous, the raw and unsmooth.’ The team are

The Atlantic

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Many popular authors are compelling storytellers who sharply analyze power dynamics and offer vivid portraits of daily life. They are also frequently dismissed by the literary establishment.

Literary Hub

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Poets Tommy Pico, Karla Brundage, Nazelah Jamison, Danielle Lisa Bero and Preeti Vangani read poems about their experiences in the pandemic during Shuffle Collective’s 2020 Weekend of Words Literary Festival. * Tommy Pico is an award-winning indigen

Writing Magazine

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Publishing commercial fiction, especially crime and mystery fiction, London based independent publisher Joffe Books will also consider historical fiction and romance novels. Encouraged to submit and have their voices heard are writers of colour, LGTB

Literary Hub

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On October 7 a number of Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s followers took photos of themselves voting with a gun at their side; the extreme right-wing candidate had said, as a campaign promise, that he would make the sale of firearms