Q&A: Thomas’s App for Young Readers
A young developer discusses the genesis of her app, We Read Too, which offers an extensive database of multicultural books for young readers.
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Worth the Wait: A Profile of Arundhati Roy
Readers have anticipated a new novel from the author of The God of Small Things for two full decades. Now, with the release of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the wait is over.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Roxane Gay’s Hunger and Julia Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer.
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Small Press Points: Aunt Lute Books
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the San Francisco–based feminist press Aunt Lute Books.
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Literary MagNet: Yuka Igarashi
Editor Yuka Igarashi highlights five journals that first published debut stories included in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, forthcoming in August from Catapult.
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Poetry of Exile, a Literary Guide to the Cannes Film Festival, and More
Picador editor on supporting overlooked voices; new e-book project explores digital ownership; Margaret Atwood’s additions to The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook; and other news.
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The Standard Grand by Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo reads an excerpt from his new novel, The Standard Grand, published in April by St. Martin's Press.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Compose a collaborative renga with a friend, inject surreal motifs into your fiction, and explore your relationship with a parent or child through the lens of one embarrassing memory—three prompts to keep your pen on the page this spring.
The Other Side of Burning
In her new dystopian novel, The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch takes readers to a not-so-distant future, where the earth has been ravaged by war, a dictator has taken over, and humanity’s best hope for survival is a reimagined Joan of Arc.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody With a Little Hammer and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky.
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