Where to Start Reading Alice Munro
From Lorrie Moore (I am Homeless if This is Not My Home) to Claire Dederer (Monsters) and Khaled Hosseini (The…
Authors You Need To Read
Life & Love: Reading Alice Oseman
Calling all fans of Heartstopper! Whether you’re just getting to know Nick and Charlie or you’ve been here since the…
That’s the Door You Choose to Go Through: Reading Alice McDermott
“It does come down to that moment, when as a reader or as a writer entering into a story we…
Research can lead you to places you never expect: A Guest Post from David Grann
Research can lead you to places you never expect. While working on my latest book, The Wager, I found myself…
I’m a Big Believer in the Truth: Reading David Grann
Getting to the truth isn’t always easy or neat: it can be physically taxing, dusty, and well, messy…if you’re David…
Love Makes Everything Possible: Reading James McBride
We’ve been fans of James McBride’s work since we first read his memoir, The Color of Water, ages and ages…
Our 2023 Author of the Year: David Grann
For the past couple of years, our booksellers have tapped an outstanding speculative fiction pick in addition to our book…
The Best Literary Fiction
Sometimes the best stories are the ones where the action never stops or the murderer escapes. Sometimes the best stories…
History Shapes How We Move Through the World: Reading Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward — two-time winner of the National Book Award and 2017 MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius Grant”) — is one…
Some Comix I Love: Subverting the Graphic Novel Norm, A Guest Post from Art Spiegelman, Author of Maus
Maus is the highly acclaimed graphic novel that changed the way graphic novels were considered and viewed. Both brutal and…
YA Want to Be an Adult?: 17 Authors Who Write Both YA and Adult Books
I’ve always been a voracious reader since I was little, but as I grew older, my parents encouraged me to…
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: A Joan Didion Retrospective
You’ve seen the photo, the waifish woman, leaning against a Corvette, cigarette in one hand and the other wrapped around…
Where to Start Reading the Transcendent Work of Toni Morrison
The Nobel laureate and towering figure of American letters Toni Morrison died Monday at the age of 88. She leaves behind a…
A Literary Tour of Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day
As with every cultural holiday, St. Patrick’s Day often gets diluted and boiled down to its trappings—the green beer, the…
A Conversation with Philip Roth (1933–2018)
Today we remember great American author Philip Roth, who entered public consciousness with the elegiac coming of age Goodbye, Columbus, inflamed…
A Definitive Ranking of the Best Neil Gaiman Fiction Books
There comes a time in every beloved author’s career when a book blogger must attempt to rank that author’s works.…
A Definitive Ranking of Every Book By Haruki Murakami Ever
Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who’s tipped each year as a Nobel contender; widely acclaimed as a genius, his…
6 Debut Novels to Watch for in 2018
Many readers love the fall, when new novels by well-known authors are apt to appear in bookstores. But some of…
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A Novel on the Rise: Robin Sloan and Kevin Nguyen Talk “Sourdough”
The author of “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Bookstore” returns with a book that is (and isn’t) about a humble loaf…