Sunday, October 24, 2021

Five top dark and disturbing reads

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James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received grants fro...

Pg. 99: Nora C. Benedict's "Borges and the Literary Marketplace"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading by Nora C. Benedict ...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

What is David R. Slayton reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: David R. Slayton , author of  Trailer Park Trickster . His entry begins: The pandemic has me reading a lot of comf...

Eight memoirs of women hiking in the wilderness

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Annabel Abbs is an award-winning author and journalist. She writes regularly for a wide range of newspapers and magazines and lives in Lond...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Pg. 69: Jessica Vitalis's "The Wolf's Curse"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Wolf's Curse by Jessica Vitalis . About the book , from the publisher: Gauge’s life has been cursed ...

Pg. 99: Paul Freedman's "Why Food Matters"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Why Food Matters by Paul Freedman . About the book , from the publisher: From the author of Ten Restaurants...

Eight noir novels featuring saps and suckers

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Gregory Galloway is the author of the novels The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand and the Alex Award-winning As Simple As Snow . His short stories...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Bethany Ball's "The Pessimists," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Pessimists by Bethany Ball . The entry begins: My first choice for Virginia Powers, my main protagonis...

Pg. 99: José Vergara's "All Future Plunges to the Past"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by José Vergara . About the book , from th...

Top ten true crime novels

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After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Invergordon, Bergen and Perth, Denise Mina left school early. Working in a number ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Third reading: D.W. Buffa on "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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D.W. Buffa was a criminal defense attorney for 10 years and his Joseph Antonelli novels reflect that experience. The New York Times called...

Pg. 99: Diane Coyle's "Cogs and Monsters"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be by Diane Coyle . About the book , from the publis...

Eight top books about living in Los Angeles

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María Amparo Escandón is the author of the #1 L.A. Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints and González & Daughter Trucking Co . N...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Q&A with Jessica Vitalis

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From my Q&A with Jessica Vitalis , author of The Wolf's Curse : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? ...

Pg. 99: Martin Williams's "When the Sahara Was Green"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams . About the book , from the...

Six top books about crime & colonialism at the U.S.-Mexico border

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Bruce McCandless III grew up in the shadow of Houston’s Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab eras. He graduated from the Plan ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Pg. 69: Margaret Verble's "When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble . About the book , from the publisher: Louise Erdrich...

Pg. 99: Claudia Goldin's "Career and Family"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin . About the book , from the ...

Nine books about love, loss, and belonging set in the Caribbean

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Myriam J. A. Chancy , Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in ...