Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Elizabeth McCracken PAGES 371 | GENRE Historical Fiction REVI EW BY David Canfield @davidcanfield97 I THOUGHT I KNEW THE SPRAWLING family saga—intimate domestic dramas smacked against vast historical backdrops, decades spanned in the sprint to

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

SFX

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

The Atlantic

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Welcome back to the Books Briefing. This week’s edition focuses on characters who spend their time taking care of other people—a role that sometimes renders their own needs invisible. In the novels below, the sometimes beautiful, sometimes fraught dy

SFX

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

SFX

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Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

The Atlantic

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

SFX

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

The Millions

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Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 442 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rena Barron Publisher HarperVoyager There’s something comforting about epic fantasy. You know the broad strokes you’re likely to get: protagonist with a destiny, dark lord, invented land w

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Philippine Tatler

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A woman of substance and as a novelist of great calibre are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Gina Apostol, the award-winning author of Insurrecto― a novel that tackles the famed Balangiga Massacre as the basis for two conflicti

The Atlantic

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The ecological stories in The Relive Box are tiny, satirical tragicomedies about individual people.

Poets & Writers

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At first glance, Nick Drnaso’s second graphic novel, Sabrina—which begins when its title character, a young woman living in Chicago, goes missing—might seem like a mystery. But after Sabrina’s disappearance is picked up by both the media and conspira

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

Watch

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Sam Lipsyte PAGES 284 GENRE Fiction HOW DOES A YOUNG, AIMLESS man go from failed comic to corporate-wellness hack to revered lifestyle guru? Pretty easily, it turns out. Author Sam Lipsyte presents a hero for our times in Hark, a meditation

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Literary Hub

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When Lesley Nneka Arimah sat down with her collection What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky, she thought: “I hope that people read this and learn nothing.” She didn’t wish for her fiction to have an eat-your-vegetables vibe, she explained onsta