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  • Deborah Eisenberg

    Deborah Eisenberg

    REC: Deborah Eisenberg + friends

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  • Molly McCully Brown

    Molly McCully Brown

    REC: “Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays” by Molly McCully Brown

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  • Giulia Bigolina

    Giulia Bigolina

    Giulia Bigolina was the only (that we know of) short story and fiction women writer of the Italian Renaissance.

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  • Top 10 New Book Releases – May 2024

    There are lots of great books coming out in May!

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  • Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison

    A few musings about one of the greatest writers of all time and a call against censorship.

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  • Miranda July

    Miranda July

    Gushing about how much I love Miranda July and her new book.

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  • Carson McCullers

    Carson McCullers

    “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” was the first thing I read by McCullers, and it still holds true what May Sarton said in her early Boston Transcript review: “something has been added to our life.” — Read more about her work and new biography.

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  • Top 5 New Book Releases – April 2024

    Here are the books coming out in April that I’m most excited about.

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  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

    She saw the light again. With some irony in her interrogation, for when one woke at all, one’s relations changed, she looked at the steady light, the pitiless, the remorseless, which was so much to her, yet so little to her, which had her at its beck and call (she woke in the night and

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  • Diane Ackerman

    Diane Ackerman

    When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy

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