This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Price of Peace</em> by Zachary D. Carter

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Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

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<em>Last Night at the Telegraph Club</em> by Malinda Lo, Read by Emily Woo Zeller

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, Read by Emily Woo Zeller

Coming of Age in 1950s San Francisco

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Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother

Kelly McMasters: “My own writing, meanwhile, was like a distant song.”

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On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

Brock Clarke: What Makes a Good Person Doesn’t Usually Make for a Good Story

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At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

Mark Haber Traces an Indispensable Influence on His Reading
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Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox

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