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10 of the Best Dickens Characters

10 of the Best Dickens Characters | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Ten of Charles Dickens's best and most complicated characters.
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His Novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Has Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That

His Novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Has Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store as been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”

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Essay: Three cheers for the pub. By Rebecca Watson, novelist and journalist

Essay: Three cheers for the pub. By Rebecca Watson, novelist and journalist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Traditional drinking holes are becoming scarcer as big chains move in, but the best of them connect you with a sense of history and community
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Classic Appreciation: Stephen King’s First Book Is 50 Years Old, and Still Horrifyingly Relevant —  Carrie was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal

Classic Appreciation: Stephen King’s First Book Is 50 Years Old, and Still Horrifyingly Relevant —  Carrie was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Essay-Review: On Kaveh Akbar's Debut Novel, Martyr! Essay by Francine Prose, fiction writer and critic 

Essay-Review: On Kaveh Akbar's Debut Novel, Martyr! Essay by Francine Prose, fiction writer and critic  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Awards: The Best Memoirs — The 2024 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist

Awards: The Best Memoirs — The 2024 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The best recent memoirs, as shortlisted for the 2024 NBCC autobiography prize and discussed by May-Lee Chai, chair of this year's judges
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Sleeze: Trump’s Newest Venture? A $60 Bible

Sleeze: Trump’s Newest Venture? A $60 Bible | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
His Bible sales pitch comes as he appears to be confronting a significant financial squeeze, with his legal fees growing while he fights a number of criminal cases and lawsuits.
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring 

27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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Classic Appreciation: Stephen King’s Carrie and the horror of girlhood — The triumph of the writer’s debut novel, published 50 years ago, is its understanding of a teenage girl’s destructive anger....

Classic Appreciation: Stephen King’s Carrie and the horror of girlhood — The triumph of the writer’s debut novel, published 50 years ago, is its understanding of a teenage girl’s destructive anger.... | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Original First Edition, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.
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Fiction: Two Hours by Alba Arikha – An impassioned tale of how life pummels and reshapes us

Fiction: Two Hours by Alba Arikha – An impassioned tale of how life pummels and reshapes us | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Navigating the extreme gap between a woman’s life and the one she imagined for herself, the writer’s third novel is concise, rigorous and heartbreaking
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Fiction: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange – The Native American story is painfully alive in an impressive second novel that moves from 19th-century massacres to present-day Oakland

Fiction: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange – The Native American story is painfully alive in an impressive second novel that moves from 19th-century massacres to present-day Oakland | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Five of the best books about the Victorians

Five of the best books about the Victorians | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning film showed 19th-century Britons as sex-crazed liberals. But it took a while to shake off the puritanical image of the era, as these five books show
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Memoir: A Very Private School by Charles Spencer – A history of violence

Memoir: A Very Private School by Charles Spencer – A history of violence | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Spencer’s shocking and moving account of abuse at a boarding school combines righteous anger with therapeutic honesty
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Book History: Book Thieves Take the Story and Run with It

Book History: Book Thieves Take the Story and Run with It | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Book theft: the books may be rare, but the crime is not.
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Profile: What Drives Kaveh Akbar, Poet and Debut Novelist? The Responsibility of Survival 

Profile: What Drives Kaveh Akbar, Poet and Debut Novelist? The Responsibility of Survival  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it

Akbar had a raging addiction and little reason to believe his life would turn out well. Now he has a debut novel, Martyr!, which makes you want to “get up and yell.”

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Debut Novel: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar — Astounding. It feels like holding magic in your hands

Debut Novel: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar — Astounding. It feels like holding magic in your hands | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Classic Appreciation: On Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart, his cycle of 20 novels. Essay by Brandon Taylor

Classic Appreciation: On Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart, his cycle of 20 novels. Essay by Brandon Taylor | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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From the Wikipedia entry on the novels: Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852–1870) and is one of the most prominent works of the French naturalism literary movement.

About Brandon Taylor: He is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
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The Best Ursula Le Guin Books - Five Books Expert Recommendations

The Best Ursula Le Guin Books - Five Books Expert Recommendations | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The best books by Ursula K. Le Guin, as recommended by Sherryl Vint—the scifi scholar and author of a new overview of science fiction.
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Classic Appreciation: Re-reading George Orwell’s see1984

In the days that followed Trump's inauguration, George Orwell’s magnum opus “1984” became the best-selling book of any genre on Amazon. While some literature helps us make sense of our current world, others foreshadow a reality we can’t yet imagine. It is impossible to discuss authoritarianism, surveillance, and the manipulation of the truth without invoking “1984” or Orwell’s name. The book is full of lessons that can help us to understand our political world today — from book bans to “alternative facts.” Williams Professor James McAllister and “Boy Erased” author Garrard Conely join Ali Velshi to discuss the book’s relevance today. “One of the ways that you check against fundamentalist thoughts is you have to be open to challenging your own beliefs and listening to your own side and criticizing your own side when that happens,” Conely says. 

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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring

17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
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Short Nonfiction - Five Books Expert Recommendations

Short Nonfiction - Five Books Expert Recommendations | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
To get your head around a big subject like World War I or read one of the best political science books, you’ll need to set aside a good few weeks, right? Fortunately, you don’t. Quite a few of the classic nonfiction books that you’ll hear people talk about are extremely short. Also exciting is the fact the publishing world is currently awash with brief introductions to complex subjects, often written by leading experts in the field. We’ve picked out some of our favourites in the list of books below. More generally, there are many introductory nonfiction series whose books have been recommended in our interviews, such as OUP’s Very Short Introductions. We’re also big fans of the Shortest History of... series, which includes (most recently) books on economics and sex.
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25 of the Best Native American Fiction Books

25 of the Best Native American Fiction Books | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Native American Fiction, especially those books authored by Native American authors, has surprisingly few popular entries, but there are a lot of good ones if you’re on the lookout. Most of these novels are historical fiction, but there’s a couple that cross into other genres as well. The Only Good Indians is part-horror novel an
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Historical Crime Fiction: The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk – Droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv

Historical Crime Fiction: The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk – Droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The first in a series of crime mysteries by Ukraine’s most famous writer has a rattling plot and a torrent of enjoyable absurdities
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History: Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders – A brilliant account of Victorian Britain in mourning

History: Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders – A brilliant account of Victorian Britain in mourning | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From shops for the bereaved to beekeepers’ black ribbons, the treatment of death in the late-19th century could be odd but also touchingly universal, as this masterly book reveals
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Society: Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia – Understanding the human impacts of AI

Society: Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia – Understanding the human impacts of AI | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Daunting tales of how everyday algorithms are changing us
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Essay: The Gigification of Publishing by Dan Sinykin

Essay: The Gigification of Publishing by Dan Sinykin | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A new publishing company called Authors Equity styles itself as a Silicon Valley-esque disruptor. How it will affect a beleaguered book industry?
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