New Books in Literature
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Megan Harlan, "Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays"...
Harlan recounts her experiences living in some of the world’s most historically rich, remote places, and how these many homes afforded her an appreciation...
25 min
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S. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blad...
A rich and complex world of sword-wielding fighters and seductive sorceresses, written in percussive, lyrical prose...
34 min
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Sarah Wisseman, "The Botticelli Caper" (Wings e...
The Botticelli Caper (Wings ePress, 2019) is set at the Uffizi Galleries during a period, not long ago, when workmen were constantly coming in and out during massive amounts of reconstruction...
22 min
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Zaina Arafat, "You Exist Too Much" (Catapult, 2...
Arafat offers a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings--for love, and a place to call home....
41 min
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Rebekah Taussig, "Sitting Pretty: The View from...
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most...
60 min
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Lawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth,...
Sarah Mullins, an American woman, arrives at the Kingdom: a fading luxury apartment complex in Bangkok...
36 min
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Rachel Genn, "What You Could Have Won" (And Oth...
What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020) is a novel about resilience and self-discovery in the face of control....
28 min
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Michelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (Sh...
Cameron explores one little-known episode of that past: the effect of Napoleon’s invasion of 1796–97 on the Italian port city of Ancona....
36 min
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P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)
Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century....
29 min
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Deni Ellis Bechard, "A Song from Faraway" (Milk...
A young man visits his half-brother in Vancouver and steals a book that changes his life...
34 min
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Anne Louise Bannon, "Death of the Chinese Field...
Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers....
28 min
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Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the...
Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...
57 min
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Heather Lende, "Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska...
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...
62 min
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Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Lo...
Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...
62 min
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Shakira Croce, "Leave It Raw" (Finishing Line P...
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence...
30 min
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Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun...
The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son...
53 min
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Jennie Fields, "Atomic Love" (G. P. Putnam's So...
Inspired by Leona Woods, the only woman who worked on the Manhattan Project, Atomic Love (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020) tells the story of Rosalind Porter, a physicist recruited by Enrico Fermi to join his team at the University of Chicago...
26 min
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Eshkol Nevo, "The Last Interview" (Other Press,...
In The Last Interview, a famous but stressed Israeli writer finds that the only way he can write is by answering a set of interview questions sent from a website...
36 min
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Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Vo...
In a set up reminiscent of the show Orphan Black, four feisty young women struggle to make their way in the world, unaware that they are related...
26 min
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Melissa Valentine, "The Names of All the Flower...
Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.
56 min
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Jasper Fforde, "The Constant Rabbit" (Viking, 2...
In Jasper Fforde’s "The Constant Rabbit," residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits...
41 min
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Andrew Krivak, “The Bear” (Bellevue Literary Pr...
In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain....
59 min
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Sergio Troncoso, "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’...
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.”
32 min
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P. K. Adams, "Midnight Fire" (Iron Knight Press...
Set at the glittering Italianate court of King Zygmunt I of Poland/Lithuania and his son, Zygmunt August, these books map fictional plots onto real historical incidents to create fast-paced, fluid stories that are as much about the tensions of a culture in transition as what drives a person to commit murder....
29 min
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Corey Sobel, "The Red Shirt" (UP of Kentucky, 2...
At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player...
39 min