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Jane Smiley's New Novel, Lucky, Draws on Her Charmed St. Louis Childhood
Riverfront Times· 5 days ago"If you ask somebody in St. Louis, 'Where did you go to high school' — because each school is so...
Loved “Long Island”? Check Out Colm Tóibín’s Other Novels
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe began writing the novel in 2000, and got the idea for Brooklyn from a few sentences he wrote in...
‘The Demon of Unrest’ Review: The Seeds of Civil War
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoThe scholar Drew Gilpin Faust chronicled his life in a 1982 biography, but the monster has slipped into obscurity and is long overdue for revival as an...
Conn Iggulden: ‘I lost a six-figure sum to a man I thought I knew’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoIt meant I could write full time for the first time. What was your breakthrough moment? Reading...
9 top new movies to stream this week on Netflix, Prime Video, Max and more (May 21-27)
Tom's Guide via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPlus, its debut on Hulu is a chance for me to give it another chance, and see if it’s a movie that...
Book it to Winnsboro to meet Dawn Tripp as she releases her new novel “Jackie”
The Gilmer Mirror· 19 hours agoJackie Kennedy Onassis has been assigned more labels than possibly any other woman in American history, occupying an incomparable status in the collective imagination and historical record.
The Best Books of 2024... So Far
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 5 days agoCyrus Shams is in my ways shaped by the history of his family—which has been difficult, strange, and at times tragic. But what if he doesn't know his own...
What's in a Novel
The Atlantic· 7 days agoTHIS book has been written in the conviction that contemporary fiction, as a great pervasive medium of public education and enlightenment, deserves fuller recognition and more constructive utilization ...
‘Back to Black’: Fact-Checking the Amy Winehouse Biopic
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe short, tragic life of Amy Winehouse has been chronicled in a documentary (Asif Kapadia’s Amy),...
Ten rules for reading from someone who does it for a living | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 2 days agoEach of us, I think, seeks what the critic Roland Barthes called "the pleasure of the text," though...
