Woman

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by Polly Crosby (£12.99, HarperCollins, HB) Romilly’s eccentric father is struggling with early-onset dementia. On finding fame with a series of children’s books starring his daughter, readers become convinced that his beautiful illustrations contain

The Paris Review

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From the cover of issue no. 136 (Fall 1995) of The Paris Review. It has been said, erroneously, that poets are cat people, novelists dog people. In fact, lots of novelists are into cats. Hilary Mantel included a photo of her cat in her Art of Fiction

Literary Hub

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Book publishing can be a tricky—and fickle—thing. Some of the classics we know and love today were instant bestsellers when they were originally published—and some were huge flops. While the numbers a book puts up during its first year in the world a

Writing Magazine

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The Hysteria Writing Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is run by Linda Parkinson Hardman, supported the work of her social enterprise The Hysterectomy Association until that closed in 2019. It’s now run from Linda’s blog. T

Literary Hub

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This year’s Windham-Campbell Festival kicks off at Yale University on September 13th, and along with a glamorous awards ceremony to honor the winners of $165,000 each grant money, there will be a keynote presentation from none other than Karl Ove Kna

The American Poetry Review

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It’s a brass class of penny-whistleson branches, the black oystercatcherpicked bark; hole struck in a plastic lidburnt by butane. Melted, stingingmissiles marking territory, terror’sa truck right through the base oftrees. Turn down the sound. Talk st

Literary Hub

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The 2017 Man Booker shortlist has been announced: Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1  Listen to Paul Auster discuss James Baldwin, activism, and Donald Trump’s rise to power. Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves Read Emily Fridlund on 11 classics of the new gothic ca

Literary Hub

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As I write this, more than 250 million people have been ordered to stay at home in attempt to slow the coronavirus pandemic. For many of those those lucky enough to be simply quarantined and not sick (or caring for anyone who is), the days have been

Woman & Home

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In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, dramatic events mark the relationship between governess Jane and gruff Edward Rochester. They do marry, but only after facing a series of challenges that include a hidden wife locked in an attic, a devastating fire i

The Christian Science Monitor

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Shared reading memories I was enchanted by Robert Klose’s Sept. 4 Home Forum essay, “How I became a reader of books.” It brought back memories of my more than threescore years of reading, even as a small child. Having experienced the pleasure of boo

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

Literary Hub

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Are you superstitious? Do you beware the Ides of March? Do you step over cracks on Fridays that happen to fall on the 13th of any given month? But especially October? Do you toast dead writers on their would-have-been birthdays? Well, me too. Which m

Woman & Home

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I first read this when I was nine and it terrified me. We’d just moved into a Victorian house, where my bedroom was in the attic. I was convinced Bertha Mason lived in the box room and would set fire to me each night. The ‘mad woman in the attic’ is

Writer's Digest

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The best beginnings toss readers into the whirlwind that is going to be your story right as the action begins, giving them no choice but to read further. The best endings stick with readers for years after they’ve closed the book. WD editors got toge

The Millions

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The big prize for fiction went to Jesmyn Ward. The post 2017 National Book Award Winners announced appeared first on The Millions.

Literary Hub

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Philip Kerr’s 12th Bernie Gunther novel, Prussian Blue, is available now. What was the first book you fell in love with? First book I fell in love with was probably Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Name a classic you feel guilty about nev

Writing Magazine

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Due to the difficulty in readers obtaining copies of the nominated books, this year’s Booker Prize has been postponed indefinitely from its original date on 19 May. Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, said, ‘After careful con

The Writer

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NPR

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The 2017 nominees for the U.K.'s top literary prize include a hefty dose of marquee authors, such as Paul Auster. But the list also features a pair of debuts, from Emily Fridlund and Fiona Mozley.

Literary Hub

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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared on June 20th, 1890, in the July issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, to major controversy and no small amount of hostility. According to Nicholas Frankel, editor of an annotated edition of th

60 Days of Prayer

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Cobblestone

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American writers produced a number of books in the 1920s. Here’s brief list of some of those titles, authors, and the year in which they were published. Not all of these works of fiction or poetry were bestsellers at the time they were published, but

Literary Hub

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In case you haven’t noticed, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Be nice to your mom. Maybe you could even hang out with her. I promise she’ll like it better than flowers that come in a box, or even a new book (sacrilege, I know). And hey, these twenty-two

Literary Hub

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An English teacher once asked me, “Are you a writer or an editor?” This isn’t an unusual question, it seems: plenty of writers (and readers) have come up against it, even if it all just boils down to how many hours they have in the day. But some magi

Country Life

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1812 Born in Portsmouth on February 7 1824 The young Charles has to leave school because his father (as was Mr Micawber) is imprisoned in Marshalsea for debt; works in a blacking factory for three years 1827 Starts job as clerk to an attorney 1830 Fa

Writing Magazine

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The Wigtown Poetry Prize is open for entries The international Scottish poetry competition, which was refreshed and rebranded in 2019, welcomes entries from poets from anywhere in the world. There are prizes in various categories: • The Wigtown Prize

Literary Hub

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Anna Burns has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her novel, Milkman. As of this afternoon, 27-year-old Daisy Johnson, the youngest author ever to make the Booker Prize shortlist, was also the favorite to win, with Ladbrokes giving the book 9/2 odds.

Writing Magazine

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Winners of the prestigious 2020 Romantic Novel Awards, presented by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, are: Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award, for the best novel by a first-time author: Lorna Cook, The Forgotten Village Libertà Books Shorter

Literary Hub

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It’s finally March, which means only one thing—tournament brackets. You know, for sports? But it turns out they’re not only for sports, and for my money, the best bracket going is March Fadness, a 64-team, March-Madness-style tournament of 1990s One

Literary Hub

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One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—not repackaged nor redesigned, not yet Made into a Major Mot