Books
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Ghosts Come in Many Forms in Bryan Washington’s New Novel
In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated…
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Audiobook of the Week: What’s Really in a Hot Dog?
“Raw Dog,” by the comedian Jamie Loftus, is an investigative memoir that’s part gonzo travelogue and part takedown of the…
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Kate DiCamillo Is Not Afraid of the Dark
Kate DiCamillo learned the craft of storytelling by sitting on old ladies’ porches on her dead-end street in Central Florida.…
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Banana Yoshimoto Wants Books to Give Her Insomnia
What books are on your night stand? I read most of my books on the Kindle, but as far as…
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Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work.
Throughout a decades-long career, the playwright and author Jon Fosse has inspired comparisons to Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett and even…
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What Can Writers Learn From Turtles?
While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in…
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Read Your Way Through Missoula
Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time…
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1960s London Comes Alive in a Fierce, Funny Coming-of-Age Novel
In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young…
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The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All
McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Paul Harding and Cristina Rivera Garza are among the honorees. Winners will be announced next month.