The Missing Locket: An Invitation to Wonder
When writing historical fiction, the novelist must become an archaeologist—combining research and imagination to excavate relics of the past, confront ghosts, and make old stories new again.
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Odds on Murakami for Nobel Prize, the Revelations of Marilynne Robinson, and More
Akashic Books to launch left-leaning sports imprint; Margaret Sullivan weighs in on Amazon-Hachette dispute; U.K. bookstores launch "Super Thursday"; and other news.
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Hilary Mantel’s Controversial New Short Story, the Slow Reading Movement, and More
A marathon Dylan Thomas reading; forthcoming books on ISIS; the debate about young adult fiction; and other news.
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Barnes & Noble Splits From Nook, Simon & Schuster Opens E-book Lending to all Libraries, and More
Walt Whitman first edition sells for record amount; in defense of attractive writers; portraits of Kurt Vonnegut; and other news.
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Harper Lee Permits To Kill a Mockingbird E-book, the Search for Miguel de Cervantes, and More
Bear Grylls to pen thrillers; “ambush poetry” in Las Vegas; the trouble with labeling women’s writing; and other news.
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Republicans Denounce Amtrak Residency, U.K. Nonprofit Protests Gendered Children’s Books, and More
A San Diego writer celebrates a novel fifteen years in the making; a South African novelist explores E. M. Forster’s private life; New Orleans gears up for Tennessee Williams Literary Festival; and other news.
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Goodbye to Algonquin's Oak Room, E. B. White Answers the ASPCA, and More
Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more
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Remembering Wislawa Szymborska and Dorothea Tanning, Paul Auster's War of Words, and More
Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has engaged in a war of words with Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey; Open Letters Monthly examines the hidden life of Virginia Woolf's institutionalized half-sister, Laura Makepeace Stephen; and other news.
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An Interview With Fiction Writer Colum McCann
Colum McCann's most recent novel, Dancer, published by Henry Holt in January, reimagines the life and the international milieu surrounding the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who died in 1993.
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