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The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

Dwyer Murphy on Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, and Patricia Highsmith (wait, Highsmith...?)

By Dwyer Murphy | July 25, 2022

Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

John Domini on Amber Sparks, Percival Everett, Laura van den Berg, Lance Olsen, Paul Beatty, Karen Russell, and More

By John Domini | July 25, 2022

On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 25, 2022

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

Life Imitates Art as Leah Franqui Travels Home With Her Father

By Leah Franqui | July 25, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jamil Jan Kochai, and More

By Book Marks | July 22, 2022

Micro, Sudden, Flash, Short-Shorts: A Brief Survey of Even Briefer Fiction

Micro, Sudden, Flash, Short-Shorts: A Brief Survey of Even Briefer Fiction

Gary Lippman Explores Condensed Storytelling

By Gary Lippman | July 22, 2022

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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

L-O-V-E: A Reading List For Lovers, Love-Seekers and the Loved

By Zibby Owens | July 22, 2022

With Violence All Around Us, What Does It Actually Mean For a Book To Be a Crime Novel?

By Literary Disco | July 22, 2022

Putting the Macro in Micro: Abby Manzella on World-Building in Microfiction

By Micro Podcast | July 22, 2022

The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 21, 2022

8 Women Directors from Around the World You Should Be Watching

8 Women Directors from Around the World You Should Be Watching

David Jenkins on Ava DuVernay, Isabel Sandoval, and More

By David Jenkins | July 21, 2022

WATCH: CJ Hauser on Finding Joy in the Not-Knowing

WATCH: CJ Hauser on Finding Joy in the Not-Knowing

The Author of The Crane Wife in Conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 21, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Of books by J.G. Ballard, Christopher Hitchens, Isaac Fitzgerald, and More

By Book Marks | July 21, 2022

Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 21, 2022

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Sarah McCraw Crow on the Richest Time for Finding Our Truer Selves

By Sarah McCraw Crow | July 21, 2022

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

Alanna Schubach on Balancing the Fantastical with the Familiar

By Alanna Schubach | July 21, 2022

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