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

PC Gamer

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In The Sims, it’s usually an accident when your inhabitants end up being terrorised by a vengeful spirit. (That, or you’ve entombed the deceased’s ashes in a secret compartment so they can never find peace.) But in 2003’s Ghost Master, it’s precisely

Chat

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The Britannia Bridge carries the A55 and a railway line over which strait? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer’s in. We’ve put a section in to start you off! There may be two Across answers in one line. Down words fill themsel

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

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

Chat It's Fate

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never ever a locations. While I may experience something, other investigators might get nothing and vice versa. I’ve been in places said to be crawling with all manner of spooks and left with nothing but a good night’s sleep – however, I’ve also stay

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit

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.

Chat It's Fate

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At the end of an unassuming street in Wolverhampton, you’ll find a small dirt driveway, surrounded by tall dark trees. This leads to a building dating back to the 1300s, which has had many tenants over the years – some of whom have never left. Strang

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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In The Sims, it’s usually an accident when your inhabitants end up being terrorized by a vengeful spirit. (That, or you’ve entombed the deceased’s ashes in a secret compartment so they can never find peace.) But in 2003’s Ghost Master, it’s precisely

Chat It's Fate

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Ye Old Punchbowl Inn in Bridgnorth, Shropshire is haunted by the ghost of a little girl called Jesse, who’s thought to have been murdered by a former landlord back in the 1800s. She’s regularly heard by staff and residents at the pub, crying. The mur

The Millions

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This year I read too many wonderful books to name all of them here, but some highlights were: Katie Kitamura’s intoxicating A Separation, which is such a wild and yet disciplined exploration of the idea of the traveler and of grief. Anuk Arudpragasam

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

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

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

Chat It's Fate

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The UK has more than its fair share of haunted hotels but the Langham Hotel in London possibly boasts the most high-class list of phantoms! Spooks include a man in Victorian dress in room 333, and a ghost wearing military uniform who’s believed to be

You South Africa

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This is one of those books that has arrived at the perfect time. If the pandemic has put you into a bit of a reading lull, this is the novel that will snap you out of it. It’s a book that will have you howling with laughter the one moment and wiping

Empire Australasia

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OUT NOW (SBS ON DEMAND) EPISODES VIEWED 4 OF 4 DIRECTOR Shawn Seet CAST Catherine Van-Davies, Ferdinand Hoang, Gabrielle Chan, Bryan Brown PLOT When a malevolent spirit is accidentally freed from his Vietnamese prison on the eve of the Hungry Ghos

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

Woman & Home

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Renowned for her twisting plots and dark-toned domestic thrillers, Louise Candlish’s latest chilling read, The Other Passenger, has an emotional secret at its core. When I start writing, I always get the first 10,000 words down so I have a good la

WHO

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A ghost story with a twist, Hungry Ghosts follows four families that find themselves haunted by souls from the past. The four-part drama series starts when a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival – a tradition

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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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

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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It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and ju

The Atlantic

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

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased 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