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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge by John K. Brown . About the book, from the p...

Alana B. Lytle is a screenwriter whose recent credits include Netflix’s Brand New Cherry and Peacock’s A Friend of the Family . Her short f...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton . About the book, from the publisher: A private investigator follows a tra...

Carolyn Kuebler was a co-founder of the literary magazine Rain Taxi and for the past ten years she has been the editor of the New England ...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy by Carola Binder . About the book, from the publish...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton . The entry begins: I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought abou...

From my Q&A with Kate Feiffer , author of Morning Pages : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Morning ...

Neil McRobert is a writer and critic with a Ph.D. in contemporary horror fiction. At Vulture he tagged eleven books for fans of Liu Cixin...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo . About the book, from the publisher: A twisty new near-future genre-bendi...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook . About the book...

Elizabeth O'Connor lives in Birmingham. Her short stories have appeared in The White Review and Granta , and she was the 2020 winner of...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Some Doubt About It : A Novel by Marion McNabb . The entry begins: I worked for several years as a screenw...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut by Nadine A. Sinno . About the book, from the pub...

Elise Juska ’s new novel, Reunion , was named one of People Magazine’s “Best Books to Read in May 2024.” Her previous novels include  The B...

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Life, Loss, and Puffins : A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde . About the book, from the publisher: An exhilarati...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies by Elizabeth Abel . About the book, from the publisher: ...

Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the new novel We Were the Universe and the short story collection Black Light , which was longliste...

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Reunion : A Novel by Elise Juska . The entry begins: The main characters in Reunion are three college fri...

Featured at the Page 99 Test: May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases―And What We Can Do about It by Alex...

Lisa Allardice is the Guardian 's chief books writer. She tagged five of the best Alice Munro short stories, including: "Dance of...