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A Literary Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia
“Lázár” moves quickly, scarcely leaving readers time to settle into one moment before whisking them off to the next. How else could it…
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John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling
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The Curve Behind the Story: Celebrating Authors Who Write Plus Size Characters
If you’ve ever scrolled endlessly on Goodreads trying to find a romance where the heroine actually looks like you or wished BookTok would…
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The Celebrity Picture Book Boom
There are no guilty pleasures in childhood. It is only as an adult that I feel a certain sheepishness when recalling one of my favorite…
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I Tried the Creative Rituals of 5 Meticulous Authors. Here’s What I Learned
Every year when January 1 comes around, the needlessness of setting goals is shouted from the rooftops. But I, in a clandestine corner of…
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Required Reading: 7 Books and Authors That Inspired Elizabeth McGovern’s New Play
“It just blew my mind, because it takes a person all the way from high school age to maturity. That really fascinates me as an actor, the…
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Garth Risk Hallberg’s Essential Joyce Carol Oates
Like many people, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg was daunted by the size of the celebrated American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s body of…