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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Typewriter Beach : A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton . About the book, from the publisher: Set in Carmel-by-the-S...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Misplaced Physician by Jeri Westerson . The entry begins: The Misplaced Physician is book #3 in my A...

At Book Riot Emily Martin tagged " four horror novels to get you in the mood for the 4th of July this year (…or not) ." One title...

Featured at Writers Read: Priyanka Taslim , author of Always Be My Bibi . Her entry begins: I recently finished Park Avenue by Renée Ahdi...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Women's Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights by Gila Stop...

Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs. She lives in Toronto with her (very much...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Five Oaks : A Novel by Julie Hensley . The entry begins: It’s fun to think about how Five Oaks might play...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Murder in Pitigliano by Camilla Trinchieri . About the book, from the publisher: Ex-NYPD detective Nico Doy...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Dutch World of Washington Irving: Knickerbocker's History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales ...

Julia Seales is a novelist and screenwriter. She earned an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, and a BA in English from Vanderbilt University. S...

From my Q&A with Julie Hensley , author of Five Oaks : A Novel : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse by Nathan K. Hensley . About the book, from...

The Guardian asked twenty authors (including Anne Enright, Rutger Bregman, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín) about their summer...

Featured at Writers Read: Simon Toyne , author of The Black Highway . His entry begins: I just this second finished reading Fatherland by...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship by Michael Matthews . Abo...

Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams , which was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Always Be My Bibi by Priyanka Taslim . About the book, from the publisher: Clueless meets Jenna Evans Welch...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined by Eugenia Zuroski . About the book, from the pub...

Dwyer Murphy is the author of An Honest Living and The Stolen Coast , both of which were New York Times Editors’ Choice selections. He is ...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Dark Library : A Novel by Mary Anna Evans . The entry begins: The Dark Library is set in 1942, and it...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Remnants of Refusal: Feminist Affect, National Trauma by Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf . About the book, from the p...

Joanna Howard is the author of the novel Porthole (2025) and the memoir Rerun Era (2019). Other works include Foreign Correspondent (20...