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In 2015 at Flavorwire, Sarah Seltzer tagged thirty of literature’s most delightfully nasty mean girls . One character on the list: Caroline...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman by Simon Cordery . Abo...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Curse of the Savoy : A Priscilla Tempest Mystery (Book 4, Priscilla Tempest Mysteries) by Ron Base and Prudenc...

Shane Hegarty , born and raised in Skerries, Ireland, is a children's book author. His books include the Darkmouth series. In 2016, at ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Remarkable Madame Pandit: Champion of India, Citizen of the World by Manu Bhagavan . About the book, fro...

Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case...

Featured at Writers Read: James R. Benn , author of A Bitter Wind (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery) . His entry begins: Re-reading, actually. ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: I Am You by Victoria Redel . About the book, from the publisher: At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is force...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman . About the book, from the ...

At Esquire Adrienne Westenfeld and Sirena He tagged twenty-five essential books about the Asian American experience , including: Pachinko ...

The Dark Backward is among D.W. Buffa 's more recent novels to be released. The story revolves around not just the strangest case Willi...

Brittany K. Allen is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn. At Lit Hub she tagged six notable re-tellings . One entry on the list: Zadie ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes . About the book,...

From my Q&A with Danila Botha , author of A Place for People Like Us : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story...

Leah Rachel von Essen is an editor, writer, and book reviewer. She is a copyeditor and fact-checker at Encyclopedia Britannica , as well as...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Man in the Stone Cottage by Stephanie Cowell . About the book, from the publisher: In 1846 Yorkshire, t...

Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Maria La Divina ; Ravage & Son ; Sergeant Sal...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: People v. The Court: The Next Revolution in Constitutional Law by David L. Sloss . About the book, from the ...

Featured at Writers Read: Francesca Catlow , author of Under a Greek Sky . Her entry begins: Currently I’m reading In Another Life by Imo...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Girl in the Green Dress : A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald by Mariah Fredericks . The entry begins:...

The son of a librarian, Chris M. Arnone 's love of books was as inevitable as gravity. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Univ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City, 1890-2000 by C. Yamini Krishna . ...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey . About the book, from the publisher: In an alternate world where no...