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Book RecsThe First Novel Prize
Announcing The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Shortlist
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. These seven titles were selected from the longlist...
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Places Between
An Italian dystopian future; an epic novel about the natural world through the lens of a single dwelling; a South African writer’s music-infused...
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What’s Going On
With September in full swing there are many events to celebrate. We mark the beginning of National Hispanic Literature Month with an indispensable...
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Getting By
Characters, real and imagined, deal with the hands they were dealt—whether it is surviving the contemporary pandemic, hunger in the 1600s, or...
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
Whether it’s due to growing up celebrating the Jewish New Year or from living in New York where September brings a deluge of exciting new...
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Search and You Will Find
This week look for a Korean American father who goes missing; a harrowing novel about survival in the sea; a portrait of a 19th century German...
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Emotional Disturbances
This week’s characters are often on the brink: a housewife dangerously weary of her life; a Dublin family hanging by a thread; two novels about...
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Style and Substance
This week there is a plethora of styles and genres: a dystopian pandemic novel; an old-school fictional biography; a tale of exile; a college...
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Under Pressure
Three tension-filled works of fiction by highly acclaimed authors present characters and plots driven in part by racial differences and the complicated...
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Artistic License
From the Harlem Renaissance to Midwestern nostalgia, the facade of perfection, interracial romance, and a Pakistani character’s vision of the...