- Booksellers across the country recommend their must-reads for fall. | Literary Hub
- How a happy boy made a happy girl: a Sheila Heti story made skeletal by the artist Sara Lautman. | Electric Literature
- On Joan Didion, delicate flower and pioneer of self-branding. | Gawker Review of Books
- Elena Ferrante has “finished this story that [she] thought would never end” and that we all wish wouldn’t. | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- A summary of the pre-publication Go Set A Watchman antics, the most closely publishing will ever resemble an episode of Gossip Girl. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- Between prayer and despair: on the power of fellowship in George Eliot’s fiction. | Berfrois
- On The Long Gaze Back, a new collection that combines emerging, established, and long-deceased Irish women writers. | The Town Crier
- A goddamn good book is a goddamn good book: an interview with Sean H. Doyle. | Entropy Magazine
- In what is certain to shake up every Greatest Books list ever penned, Mariah Carey is publishing a picture book based on “All I Want for Christmas Is You” starring a little girl and a puppy. | GalleyCat
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