Lessons in Waiting for Yes
Because being a musician—a decade of noes and passes—wasn’t enough, I’ve decided to have another go at failure in an attempt to start a writing career.
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The Millions Top 10
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel
The Memory Police: A Novel
Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories
Inland: A Novel
The Topeka School: A Novel
The New Me
Normal People: A Novel
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale
Ten Ways to Live Forever
What a strange, terrible, beautiful thing this life is, that if we were to fully inhabit every single blessed second of it, we’d be as eternal as it were ever possible to be.
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Hallie Rubenhold Wins 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize
The Baillie Gifford Prize, which celebrates the best in nonfiction, was awarded to The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.
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‘In the Country of Women’: Featured Nonfiction from Susan Straight
You so fine I might just have to kill you. Some other fool is gonna take you away, and I can’t have that. Family legend: This is what Daisy’s first husband said to her, holding the gun he kept on the small table beside their bed.
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Malcolm Gladwell Talks to Strangers
The bestselling author returns with his sixth book, Talking to Strangers, and a little advice about trust, relationships, and the lies people tell.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring MacLaughlin, Gritton, Hamilton, Dunn, and More
Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Nina MacLaughlin, JP Gritton, Saskia Hamilton, Stephen Dunn, and more—that are publishing this week.
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In the Kitchen with Shirley Jackson
Valerie Stivers takes on the poisoned meal from We Have Always Lived in the Castle—minus the arsenic-sprinkled blueberries, of course.
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The Joys of Reading with a Second Grader
My daughter would need a chair to reach them, and I could see it was this fact—not my endorsement of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classics—that sold her on them.
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The Private Life of Debbie Harry
Sometimes it was almost deliciously scary [to] be fighting against these odds. The reward of having a creative enterprise be accepted is kind of amazing.
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Constance Garnett Gets Her Due
Sara Wheeler tells the story of Constance Garnett, an "indefatigable worker" who translated the works of Dostoevsky and Chekhov.
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