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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi …
From Susan Orlean, the beloved New Yorker writer and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book who …
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi …
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This pull-quote on the rear of the #Elphie dust jacket is remarkable writing, and an example of how author #GregoryMaguire has honed his powerfully literary voice. But reading the lines as a parent of sisters? 😬😔
A hilariously acerbic sliding doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to …
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning …
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro …
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger …
Acclaimed as among the twenty greatest post-war American novels, Mrs. Caliban has all the elements of a late-night movie: unnatural …
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick
A Washington Post Book of the Year
"We think we know the …
Who says you can't run away from your problems?
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A …
A “powerful and poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear that takes on themes of …
‘See? The wisdom of the plains. Pretend nothing happened.’ ‘We always do.’
— A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Page 22)
A “powerful and poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear that takes on themes of …
Perhaps there is a distance that is the optimum distance for seeing one’s father, farther than across the supper table or across the room, somewhere in the middle distance. Well, that is a distance I never found.
— A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Page 20)
“Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
“Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
