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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Last to Leave the Room : A Novel by Caitlin Starling . About the book, from the publisher: Last to Leave the ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t by Steven Conn . About the book, from th...

Ritu Mukerji was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. From a young age, she has been an avid reader of mysteri...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Why SNAP Works: A Political History―and Defense―of the Food Stamp Program by Christopher John Bosso . About ...

Tobias Carroll is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn. He is the author of the short story collection Transitory and the novel Reel . A...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker . About the book, from the publisher: Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight...

Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, from where he hosts thei...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust by Dan Stone . About the book, from t...

Featured at Writers Read: Allison Epstein , author of Let the Dead Bury the Dead . Her entry begins: I'm currently about halfway throu...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: For Girls Who Walk through Fire by Kim DeRose . The entry begins: My YA novel, For Girls Who Walk Through ...

Nolan Cubero is a writer and director originally from Louisville, Kentucky. He studied linguistics at Brooklyn College and is currently a l...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein . About the book, from the publisher: An urgent, immersive alt...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada by Stephen Bown . About the book , from the publisher: Stephen ...

Eliza Browning is an intern at Electric Literature. She tagged sixteen top "new works by and about Native North American writers ,...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Home at Night : A Mercy Carr Mystery by Paula Munier . About the book, from the publisher: Beware the blackbi...

Jeff Somers is the author of Writing Without Rules, the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers , and Chum (among many other books) a...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music by David Menconi ....

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Home at Night : A Mercy Carr Mystery by Paula Munier . The entry begins: In my Mercy Carr series, former M...

From my Q&A with Kellie M. Parker , author of Thin Air : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I admit th...

Jennifer McMahon is the New York Times Bestselling author of twelve suspense novels including The Winter People and Promise Not To Tell ....