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A story late in the Chicago author Jasmon Drain’s debut, “Stateway’s Garden,” begins: “Our mothers take credit, but in Stateway we raised ourselves.” It’s a telling sentence, a kind of key to the whole enterprise. We are introduced from…
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenThe investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein’s first book, “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power,” traces the origin of the myths about the…
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The author Roxane Gay is making another foray into the world of graphic novels, with the publication in October of “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” an adaptation of one of her short stories. The fantasy is about a world that is cloaked in…
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Sponsored by Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast Novel Gazing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals The Last Time I Lied by Riley…
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Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by Flatiron Books, Publisher of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.   “…Little Free Libraries are exactly what they…
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The essay collection has always been the open door to new ideas. Offering a buffet of food for thought, essays are the vehicle for dynamic perspectives and passions that can often go on to inspire in their reader something…
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Joker has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards this year. Eleven, including best picture. More than any other film that was released in 2019. Enough people think Joker was better than Parasite, better than Jojo Rabbit,…
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Is the new year coming? I hope so! In these very first lines of Bringing in the New Year—one of her many Lunar New Year books for children—author Grace Lin immediately draws us into the happy buzz around preparations for…
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Few authors have had as much influence on the English language as William Shakespeare. Throughout an oeuvre of 37 plays and 154 sonnets, the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon coined over 1700 new words. His dominion over…
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What is speculative fiction? You may get a different answer depending on who you ask. Let’s explore this concept. What Is Speculative Fiction? Speculative fiction is often used an umbrella term for genre fiction or for…
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