Find a community through book on being alone

Posted on 11/19/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

’Tis the season to start dreading the uncomfortable questions about holiday plans if you don’t have the worl...

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Book on Howard Hughes previews the future #MeToo movement

Posted on 11/18/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writer and film critic Karina Longworth’s research for her new book on Howard Hughes has yielded an unpleasant tru...

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How the 2016 election affected noir novel "The Feral Detective"

Posted on 11/17/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Jonathan Lethem was among the many caught by surprise by the 2016 presidential election. In his mind, he was slig...

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Liane Moriarty: The struggles are real

Posted on 11/16/2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Most of us love escaping reality while we read. And Liane Moriarty’s latest book, Nine Perfect Strangers, meets th...

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Author Q&A: Jonathan LaPoma

Posted on 11/16/2018 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Break a musician’s heart, and you just might be the muse for a fantastic album. And while romantic woes weren&rsqu...

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Meet the 2018 National Book Awards winners

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 07:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The following works of art won at last night's National Book Awards ceremony:  The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez...

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Author Q&A: Vanessa Couchman

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Serendipity has played a crucial role in historical-fiction author Vanessa Couchman’s career. As a young girl, she...

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Cookbook celebrates the art of preparing food for just one

Posted on 11/14/2018 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When you’re a single person in a coupled world, there’s no shortage of situations in which you feel like the...

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Kiese Laymon, Susan Orlean participate in Literary Hub's Q&A

Posted on 11/13/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We just stumbled upon a fun monthly feature from Literary Hub called Five Writers, Seven Questions, No Wrong Answers. Th...

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"Boy Erased" author reflects on his memoir as film comes out

Posted on 11/13/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The movie based on Garrard Conley’s memoir will soon be out in wide release, so NPR hosted him for a recent interv...

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