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Book RecsFirst Novel Prize
2021 First Novel Prize
The Center for FictionThe Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize was awarded to Kirstin Valdez Quade for her debut novel The Five Wounds (W
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Making Connections
The desire to connect is part of what makes us human, and the following stories approach this notion to great effect. Each shares the common thread...
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Events
Ha Jin on A Song Everlasting with Gish Jen
Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT July 27, 2021
National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin returns to the literary scene with his latest novel, A Song Everlasting, a...
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Videos
Dana Spiotta on Wayward with George Saunders
It’s 2016, and Samantha Raymond, at fifty-two, contends with motherhood, middle age, and a now unraveling nation entering the age of Trump
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Videos
Kristen Radtke on Seek You with Leslie Jamison
With many the world over stuck at home, the pandemic exposed a quieter epidemic that had already been ripping through America—the epidemic of loneliness
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Fireworks!
As the country approaches the 245th celebration of Independence Day, we mark the occasion with a probing and hilarious view of an American wife...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Between Two Worlds
The books this week all have characters who straddle worlds—whether through location or vocation, reality or fantasy, historical truth or fictional...
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Videos
Truman & Tennessee: Live Virtual Q&A with Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Jim Parsons, and Zachary Quinto
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams—writers, celebrities, geniuses—catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry spanning...
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Videos
The CLMP Firecracker Awards
The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make...
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Events
Jason Mott on Hell of a Book with Mateo Askaripour
Tuesday, 12:30 pm EDT July 20, 2021
Jason Mott promises a Hell of a Book in his latest work of fiction. Hell of a Book is the story of a bestselling...