Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge just wasn't done with me

Posted on 10/15/2019 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Count author Elizabeth Strout among those whose characters have minds of their own. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for Olive...

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Free read: “The Invisible” by Jo Lloyd

Posted on 10/02/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Congratulations to Jo Lloyd, whose short story “The Invisible” has won the BBC National Short Story Award. Lloyd will receive...

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Enjoy a short story from Etgar Keret's new collection

Posted on 09/10/2019 at 02:56 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

For those of you not reading (sneakily or openly) The Testaments or The Institute today, we have an alternate reading...

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A few extra free reads

Posted on 08/24/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Perhaps you’re stuck in a huge line while running errands along with the rest of the world right now or...

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Collection of long-lost Proust works will come out this fall

Posted on 08/07/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Grab a madeleine to celebrate — nine short stories and novellas by Marcel Proust will be published for the first...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Short story

Author Q&A: Anna Rashbrook

Posted on 08/05/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Today we’re interviewing Anna Rashbrook, who writes short stories and tales of all length about horses. Born in Winchester, England,...

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Steinbeck tail -- er, tale -- published in English for the first time

Posted on 07/31/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

John Steinbeck is the latest dead, English-speaking author to have a work published in his native language for the first...

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Author Q&A: Emily V. Bastien

Posted on 07/29/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Today we’re interviewing Emily V. Bastien, one of the youngest published authors in US history when she released her first...

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About that long-lost Sylvia Plath short story ...

Posted on 07/26/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

One of our favorite podcasts, Stuff You Missed in History Class, featured a few stories we’ve shared with our readers...

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Lunchtime read from Kristen Arnett

Posted on 07/03/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristen Arnett, author of the New York Times bestseller Mostly Dead Things, has more fiction to share. Check out her...

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