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The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Dan Josefson , author of That’s Not a Feeling . His entry begins: The Hour of the Star ...

Jami Attenberg 's new novel is The Middlesteins . Jonathan Franzen (author of Freedom ) says: “The Middlesteins had me from its very...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic by Lucia McMahon . Abo...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson . About the book , from the publisher: When a lo...

Ecco and the Campaign for the American Reader are giving away a copy of Karen Engelmann's new novel, The Stockholm Octavo . A brief de...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Douglas Smith , author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy . His...

Adam Lancaster is the UK's SLA School Librarian of the Year 2012. At the Guardian he named a top ten list of "books that are se...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael S. Neiberg . About the book , f...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: That’s Not a Feeling by Dan Josefson . The entry begins: That’s Not a Feeling is set on the grounds o...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Joan Wickersham , author of The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story . Her ...

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novels The Interloper and Panorama City . One book (and an alternate, "a sort of spiritual cous...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: NATO in Afghanistan: The Liberal Disconnect by Sten Rynning . About the book , from the publish...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Under the Eye of God by Jerome Charyn . About the book , from the publisher: After decades of m...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Wendy Welch , author of The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Com...

D.J. Taylor is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary (1999), and Orwell: The Life , which won the Whitbread Biography Prize...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith . About Former People ...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Human Game by Simon Read . The entry begins: Naturally, my opinion is biased, but I think Human Game...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Amy McNamara , author of Lovely, Dark and Deep . Her entry begins: I'm reading a ne...

Jami Attenberg's new novel is The Middlesteins . At Publishers Weekly she named a top ten list of dysfunctional families in literatu...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children by Timothy F. Murphy . About the book , ...