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This new Scottish bookstore will only stock books written by women.

This new Scottish bookstore will only stock books written by women.

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A24 is adapting Octavia Butler's SF classic <em>Parable of the Sower</em>.

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Here's the 2021 Booker Prize longlist.

Here's the 2021 Booker Prize longlist.

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The Benefits of People-Watching: How My Weird Subway Ritual Became a Storytelling Device

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Nora Zelevansky on Letting Daily Observations Spark the Imagination and Inform Her Writing

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