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Author Claire Lombardo Loves Writing Family Sagas: 'All We Want Is for Our Characters to Do...
People via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe bestselling novelist’s second book, ‘Same As It Ever Was,’ is out on June 18 Nina Subin;...
The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoI can’t pinpoint exactly when I began to see fatphobia everywhere in American fiction. It did not...
Best Bookstore in Palm Springs hopes to offer alternative to Rancho Mirage writers fest
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBookworms in the Coachella Valley may have two festivals to choose from to scratch their reading...
2024 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival to celebrate 10 years of furthering love of reading
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Coachella Valley may be known for its music and film festivals that attract some of the biggest...
Biblioracle: The book world has come a long way in publishing minority voices
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen it comes to publishing minority voices and perspectives, there’s no doubt that we’ve come a long way as a society. One point we can mark our progress from is the publication of “The Education ...
Bestsellers List Sunday, Oct. 30
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoCal Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin: $29) A boy growing up in a xenophobic future searches for his mother, a Chinese American poet who disappeared ...
Bestsellers List Sunday, November 6
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoCal Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $33) The story of a boy born in poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 2. The Passenger by Cormac ...
Biblioracle: It’s hard to make happiness interesting and dramatic. Patrick deWitt does so in ‘The...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBack when I was teaching literature and writing courses at the college level, my students, nice young people with lives of promise in front of them, would occasionally express a certain amount ...
Biblioracle: Long before podcasting, Chicagoans had a chance to listen to the greatest interviewer...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThanks to podcasting, long-form conversation between two people is now ubiquitous. Podcast aficionados may point to someone like Terry Gross as a progenitor with her long-standing radio program ...
Lydia Davis’s Very Short Stories to Save the World
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSeveral years ago, Lydia Davis made a decision never to set foot in France again. Why such a prohibition—for the translator of Madame Bovary and In...