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    Mary Ruefle is Vermont’s new poet laureate!

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    If you have €4.5 million, you can buy the house where J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit.

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 30, 2019
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    Elena Ferrante’s first novel in 5 years has an English-language pub date.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 28, 2019
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    Val Kilmer is releasing a memoir (!!!)

    By Dan Sheehan  October 25, 2019
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    Brujas, female horniness, and beauty as terror: the week in book deals.

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    New Books Network

    H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

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    And the winners of this year’s $50,000 Kirkus Prize are . . .

    By Emily Temple  October 24, 2019
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    Trixie and Katya have a book cover.

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    Asterix gets its first female hero in 60 years.

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    Celebrity Culture

    Take a look inside Rihanna’s new photo-biography.

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    Libraries

    Libraries Are Even More Important to Contemporary Community Than We Thought

    By Eric Klinenberg  October 24, 2019
    Reading Across America

    Reading Across America:
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    A tornado has leveled Interabang Books, Dallas’ largest independent bookstore.

    By Molly Odintz  October 22, 2019
    2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    Here is the 2019 shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

    By Literary Hub  October 22, 2019
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    The 10 new books you should be reading this week.

    By Emily Temple  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Remembering Kate Braverman’s Los Angeles

    By Liska Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Literary History

    Chill Your Wine in John Steinbeck’s Silver Bucket

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    Eliud Kipchoge is writing a memoir(!) and other notable book deals of the week.

    By Emily Temple  October 18, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Global Stories That Have Expanded the “Great American” Literary Canon

    By Sara Nović and Alison Kolesar  October 18, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Nnedi Okorafor on Writing and Narrating the Audiobook of Her Memoir

    By Emily Connelly  October 17, 2019
    News and Culture

    Connie Brothers: The Heart of the Heart of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    By Isabel Henderson  October 17, 2019
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    Albanian author Ismail Kadare has won the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

    By Literary Hub  October 16, 2019
    5 Questions

    Deborah Levy Beats Writers’ Block by… Swimming

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    Literary Critic Harold Bloom has died at 89.

    By Corinne Segal  October 15, 2019
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