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Why Evelyn Walsh deserved to win the Sean Ó Faolain story prize

Why Evelyn Walsh deserved to win the Sean Ó Faolain story prize | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.irishtimes.com - September 21, 2015 1:32 PM
White Rabbit is a funny, dark, zany story told in a distinct voice. It delights and unsettles. Set in an affluent US area, it takes risks and uses humour to take readers by stealth

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Society: Systemic by Layal Liverpool – A bracing and informative exploration of the myriad ways that racism and inequality hurt people

Society: Systemic by Layal Liverpool – A bracing and informative exploration of the myriad ways that racism and inequality hurt people | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - June 13, 6:00 AM

  

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Fiction: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry — Tragedy and farce collide in this dazzling tale of lovers on the run in Montana

Fiction: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry — Tragedy and farce collide in this dazzling tale of lovers on the run in Montana | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - June 12, 6:00 AM

  

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How Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Helped Create Modern Espionage

How Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Helped Create Modern Espionage | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:54 AM
Boosters of the CIA like to talk up its American ancestry, pointing out that spies helped win the Republic’s founding struggle against the British Empire as well as all its subsequent victories in …
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Crime Fiction: Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern Noir

Crime Fiction: Joe R. Lansdale on a Forgotten Classic of Southern Noir | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:51 AM
There’s no one quite like Joe R. Lansdale. It’s hard to think of a writer who has taken so many chances in his writing career, or who’s had so much fun. He’s written not only mysteries and suspense…
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Quiz: Can You Identify These Opening Lines of Classic Mystery and Crime Novels?

Quiz: Can You Identify These Opening Lines of Classic Mystery and Crime Novels? | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:47 AM
We find ourselves (again) the middle of the week; I ask you, how does this keep happening? We must stop meeting this way. It’s time for something fun, to move the time along. Like the quiz th…
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Best of the Most Recent International Crime Fiction

Best of the Most Recent International Crime Fiction | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:47 AM
There’s only one truly new novel in this month’s crop of international crime fiction—the others are all reissues, some translated for the first time, and others back in print for the fi…
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Essay Collection: Nell Irvin Painter’s ‘I Just Keep Talking’ is beautiful and bracing

Essay Collection: Nell Irvin Painter’s ‘I Just Keep Talking’ is beautiful and bracing | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From wapo.st - June 14, 5:36 AM
“I Just Keep Talking” brings together wide-ranging and pointed essays by the author of “The History of White People.”
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Essay: On Alice Notley's transformative poetry and essays. By Tausif Noor

Essay: On Alice Notley's transformative poetry and essays. By Tausif Noor | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - June 11, 5:42 AM
Tausif Noor examines the shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry.
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About the essayist: Tausif Noor is a critic and curator. He is a recipient of a 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, as well as a 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing.
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Reflections: A Reviewer’s Life — On the material constraints of writing criticism today. By Christine Smallwood

Reflections: A Reviewer’s Life — On the material constraints of writing criticism today. By Christine Smallwood | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - June 11, 4:18 AM
Christine Smallwood articulates the material constraints of writing criticism today.
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Classic Appreciation: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

Classic Appreciation: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - June 10, 9:57 AM
Julian Barnes feared that in rereading Alain-Fournier's great novel, in his 60s, its youthful enchantment might be lost. Instead, he was captivated once more
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Classic Appreciation: Nineteen Eighty-Four: What Orwell got right

Classic Appreciation: Nineteen Eighty-Four: What Orwell got right | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - June 8, 6:11 AM
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17 New Books Coming in June 2024 from Riley Sager, Rachel Cusk and More

17 New Books Coming in June 2024 from Riley Sager, Rachel Cusk and More | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 30, 5:00 AM
A biography of Joni Mitchell, two hotly anticipated horror novels, a behind-the-scenes exposé about Donald Trump’s years on “The Apprentice” and more.
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The Top Books to Read from 2000-2023, as Recommended by the Reviewers of The New York Times Books Review

The Top Books to Read from 2000-2023, as Recommended by the Reviewers of The New York Times Books Review | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - April 29, 2:42 PM

Best Books
Since 2000. Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best
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Memoir: Scattered by Aamna Mohdin — A journalist’s exploration of her family’s chaotic journey from Somalia is startling in its intimacy and honesty

Memoir: Scattered by Aamna Mohdin — A journalist’s exploration of her family’s chaotic journey from Somalia is startling in its intimacy and honesty | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Memoir & Interviews: A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber – Portraits that are a breath of fresh air 

Memoir & Interviews: A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber – Portraits that are a breath of fresh air  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - June 10, 4:00 AM
Star interviewer, provoker of the Chapman brothers and the woman who made Howard Hodgkin cry… Barber’s slim book about her obsession with artists – particularly those who smoke – is wonderfully entertaining...
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The Lure of Faraway Places in Crime Fiction

The Lure of Faraway Places in Crime Fiction | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:52 AM
I was barely out of college when I packed my bags and moved to the other side of the planet for the first time. I was young, of course, and madly in love, and as I boarded that plane, life felt lik…
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The Early Vampire Novel — The Vampyre was Falsely Attributed to Lord Byron

The Early Vampire Novel — The Vampyre was Falsely Attributed to Lord Byron | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From crimereads.com - June 16, 4:49 AM
One night in the rainy summer of 1816, at Lord Byron’s summer estate, Villa Diodati, in Cologny, near Geneva, Switzerland, Byron, and his friends Percy and Mary Shelley passed the time by telling g…
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25 Years Ago, Hannibal by Thomas Harris Marked the Rise of a New Kind of Blockbuster

25 Years Ago, Hannibal by Thomas Harris Marked the Rise of a New Kind of Blockbuster | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - June 9, 5:02 AM
Thomas Harris’s book came at a pivotal moment: One of the last smash hits of the ’90s, it was also one of the first big releases of the hyper-speed, hyper-opinionated internet era.
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Tell the Publishers: Let Readers Read — Sign the open letter to the publishers today and let the world know that access to knowledge and literature is a right that must be preserved

Tell the Publishers: Let Readers Read — Sign the open letter to the publishers today and let the world know that access to knowledge and literature is a right that must be preserved | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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New Historical Fiction Books: Witch Hunts, Wartime and Mysterious Murders

New Historical Fiction Books: Witch Hunts, Wartime and Mysterious Murders | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - June 14, 5:14 AM
This trio of novels ushers readers into three different but equally mesmerizing long-ago worlds.
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Essay: Teju Cole on Nobel Laureate Poet Louise Glück's Late Style

Essay: Teju Cole on Nobel Laureate Poet Louise Glück's Late Style | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - June 11, 5:30 AM
Teju Cole examines the final books by poet Louise Glück, marking a turn from the myth to the fable.
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About the essayist: Teju Cole is a Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard. He is the author of the novels Open City and Tremor and the essay collections Known and Strange Things and Black Paper.
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Awards: The 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist for the Best Science Fiction

Awards: The 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist for the Best Science Fiction | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From fivebooks.com - June 10, 10:05 AM
The six novels that made the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the science fiction book of the year, introduced by Andrew M. Butler
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Profile: Sarah Perry, award-winning novelist, author of The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes the Flood, and more

Profile: Sarah Perry, award-winning novelist, author of The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes the Flood, and more | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From wapo.st - June 10, 9:54 AM
Taking in the eclipse with the English writer, whose new book grapples with her Strict Baptist upbringing.
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Obituary: Nonny Hogrogian, 92, Award-Winning Illustrator of Children’s Books, Dies 

Obituary: Nonny Hogrogian, 92, Award-Winning Illustrator of Children’s Books, Dies  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - June 4, 5:31 PM
A two-time Caldecott Medal winner, she brought multiculturalism to children’s literature by evoking her Armenian heritage.
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Reflections on Books: By John Burnside, novelist, poet, memoirist

Reflections on Books: By John Burnside, novelist, poet, memoirist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - June 8, 5:36 AM
The Scottish author on returning to Rimbaud, his childhood love of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the comforts of 1066 and All That
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