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Five Books to Watch For in September

September is jam-packed with a lot of great new releases — it’s a nice send-off to summer and a welcome ...

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

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

Our Reading Lives: Thomas Mann Appreciation Day

This is a guest post by Rachel Cordasco. Rachel has a Ph.D in literary studies (which means she’s read WAY ...

Grading Aimee Bender’s THE COLOR MASTER, Story by Story

You know how some people feel about Neil Gaiman? Or Joss Whedon? Or Alan Moore? That level of evangelical-superchurch-backwoods-speaking-in-tongues fandom? ...

Fresh Ink: August 20, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES The Girl You Left Behind by JoJo Moyes (Pamela Dorman Books) France, 1916:  Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, ...

3 Great Experiences Meeting Writers

In my small city, there are three colleges, but only one big bookstore and less than a handful of small ...

Fresh Ink: August 6, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES  The Rathbones by Janice Clark (Doubleday) Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her ...

If Famous Authors Read One-Star Reviews of Their Books

It seems like every couple months I see a post go around about Amazon one-star reviews of classic books. Recently ...

A Beginner’s Guide to GREAT EXPECTATIONS

It was on this day in 1861 that the final installment of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations was first published. We are all ...

Five Books to Watch For in August

If August’s new releases are any indication of what is headed our way before the end of the year, we’ve ...