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K Chess was a W.K. Rose Fellow and her short stories have been honored by the Nelson Algren Award and the Pushcart Prize. She earned an MFA...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Antidote by Shelley Sackier . The entry begins: I’ve been so thoroughly disappointed with most book ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity by Ann Gleig . About the book , from the publisher: This illumin...

Featured at Coffee with a Canine: Laura Pohl & Vina . The author, on how she and Vina were united: Vina’s a rescue dog. Me and my room...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: A Dangerous Duet : A Novel by Karen Odden . About the book , from the publisher: This dazzling new Victorian...

Featured at Writers Read: Amber Royer , author of Pure Chocolate . Her entry begins: I just finished Twain's Feast: Searching for Am...

Hannah Beckerman is an author and journalist. Her new novel is If Only I Could Tell You . One of ten toxic families in fiction Beckerman...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Fr...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Tiny Americans : A Novel by Devin Murphy . About the book , from the publisher: From the National Bestsellin...

Featured at My Book, The Movies: Finding Katarina M. by Elisabeth Elo . The entry begins: I have only one request. Please cast Rachel We...

S. C. Perkins is a fifth-generation Texan who grew up hearing fascinating stories of her ancestry and eating lots of great Tex-Mex, both of...

Featured at Writers Read: Vanessa McGrady , author of Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption . Her entry begins: I’m furio...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Pure Chocolate by Amber Royer . About the book , from the publisher: To save everyone she loves, Bo Bonite...

Diana Evans is the award-winning author of Ordinary People , The Wonder and 26a . Her prize nominations include the Guardian and Commonwe...

Featured at Writers Read: Katia Lief , author of (writing as Karen Ellis) Last Night . Her entry begins: When I realized that I’d never re...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson , and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Lu...

Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times -bestselling author who writes for kids of all ages. Known for tackling tough subjects with hum...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: All the Wrong Places : A Novel by Joy Fielding . The entry begins: There are strong roles for four women i...

Fiona McCallum was raised on a farm in South Australia. She now lives in suburban Adelaide, but remains a country girl at heart. McCallum w...