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Fresh Ink: December 10, 2013

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Housemaid’s Daughter by Barbara Mutch (St. Martin’s Press)  When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books of 2013

We challenged our contributors to pick their top two books of the year. The result is a BIG list that’s just as ...

Four Bookish Phrases That Could Use Improvement

A friend once old me about a creative writing professor he had in college who would bracket large swaths of ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in November

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

E.L. Doctorow Goes Fight Club on the National Book Awards

I didn’t have the privilege of attending the National Book Awards, but from what I could gather–from Maya Angelou’s transcendent ...

The 2014 Tournament of Books: Projecting the Field

Now that The National Book Awards have been handed out, the last piece of relevant information in projected the field ...

Why So Serious?: Reimagining the Author Photo

Everyone loves a good Serious Author Photo. Capturing writers in their natural habitat of intense concentration, brows furrowed in pensive ...

An Interview With Markus Zusak

In honor of the film adaptation of Markus Zusak’s much beloved novel The Book Thief (it’s sold 8 million copies ...

COMPANY K: The Greatest War Novel You’ve Never Read

There aren’t all that many novels written about World War I from an American perspective, not that talk about the ...

Reading Pathway: Ann Patchett

I was introduced to Ann Pachett, the lovely and enchanting authoress, through her best friend, the late Lucy Grealy. And it ...