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August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

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Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Indie Bookstores, Audre Lorde, and More

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AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

The Month to Come in Literary Listening

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Minrose Gwin on Creating Complex Villains

Minrose Gwin on Creating Complex Villains

“When it comes to creating villains, I must confess to writing with more fury than love.”

By Minrose Gwin | August 30, 2024

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Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

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Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

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The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

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Tobias Carroll on M. John Harrison’s Rock Climbing Novel, “Climbers”

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O.O. Sangoyomi and Rita Woods on Needing to Know Our History

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Justin Wymer Knows a Snake When He Sees One

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Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

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Alexandra Marshall Explores the Tension Between the Diverging Demands of Fiction and Memoir

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As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

Steve Edwards on the Gathering of Life’s Infinite Moments

By Steve Edwards | August 27, 2024

A New Asian American Boom: A Reading List of the Cambodian American Experience

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Bunkong Tuon Recommends Anthony Veasna So, Vichet Chum, Sokunthary Svay, and More

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Carl Phillips on His Love for Epigraphs

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