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Binnie Kirshenbaum is a novelist and short story writer. She has twice won the Critic's Choice Award and the Discovery Award. She was o...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Life and Limb by Jennifer Roberson . About the book , from the publisher: Life and Limb is the first vo...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Speaking with the Dead in Early America by Erik R. Seeman . About the book , from the publisher: In late me...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Wyoming by JP Gritton . About the book , from the publisher: It’s 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He...

Emily Temple is a senior editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness , will be published by William Morrow in 2020. Temple and the L...

Featured at Coffee with a Canine: Margaret Mizushima & Hannah . The author, on Hannah's reluctance to head outdoors: I once thoug...

Featured at Writers Read: Howard Andrew Jones , author of Upon the Flight of the Queen . His entry begins: While my screen media intake ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley . About the book , from t...

Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Middle Grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, the Bone Stree...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Wyoming by JP Gritton . The entry begins: In high school I gravitated toward nerdy, artistically inclined...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Life and Limb by Jennifer Roberson . About the book , from the publisher: His voice was rich, a much loved ...

Kaytie Norman joined Open Road Integrated Media in 2019 after spending three years writing and editing books for Media Lab Books. Her hob...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk . About the book , from the pu...

Featured at Writers Read: Olivia Hawker , author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow . Her entry begins: I’ve been on a huge Joan D...

Mary Paulson-Ellis lives in Edinburgh. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and was awarded the inaugural Cu...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: An Equal Justice by Chad Zunker . About An Equal Justice , from the publisher: Inside a prestigious law fir...

Emma Healey is the author of Elizabeth Is Missing and Whistle in the Dark . At the Guardian , she tagged five titles that explore the ph...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Crisis!: When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule by Cedric de Leon . About the book , from the publ...

Gnesis Villar, an intern at Electric Literature, tagged seven books about the struggle of being a writer , including: Less by Andrew Sean...

Featured at Writers Read: Chad Zunker , author of An Equal Justice . His entry begins: I’m currently knee deep in Lying Next To Me , a fa...