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A middle-aged coming of age in 'All Grown Up'

A middle-aged coming of age in 'All Grown Up'

Novelist Jami Attenberg tells the story of Andrea Bern -- a failed artist who, as she turns 40, is seeking a path to personal and professional happiness.
by Mary Louise Kelly

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An unnerving thriller that will stick with you for weeks

An unnerving thriller that will stick with you for weeks

"It's a literary novel and it's a horror novel at the same time," said bookstore owner Michael Herrmann.
by Tracy Mumford

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Writing past the white gaze as a black author

"I wanted my characters to be respectable," LJ Alonge writes. "I wanted them to somehow escape the judgement they'd get for just being, the same kind of judgement I've gotten for just being..."
by LJ Alonge

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Paula Fox, prize winning author, dead at 93

She created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as "Poor George" and "Desperate Characters" and out of the real-life upheavals in her memoir "Borrowed Finery."
by Associated Press

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Sanity is slowly lost in 'Spaceman of Bohemia'

Sanity is slowly lost in 'Spaceman of Bohemia'

It's 2018 and a mysterious cloud has appeared between Earth and Venus. A Czech astrophysicist is sent to investigate. The only problem? Hanging on to his sense of reality while alone in space.
by Jason Heller

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A Purple Heart warrior takes aim at military inequality in 'Shoot Like a Girl'

A Purple Heart warrior takes aim at military inequality in 'Shoot Like a Girl'

Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar is part of a lawsuit that argues excluding women from combat is unconstitutional. She says the lawsuit isn't about women's rights -- it's about military effectiveness.

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How do you raise a feminist daughter? Chimamanda Adichie has 15 suggestions

How do you raise a feminist daughter? Chimamanda Adichie has 15 suggestions

Chimamanda Adichie's new book began as a letter to a childhood friend (and new mother) who had asked for some advice. It's called "Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions."
by Audie Cornish

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Unemployed, living in a caravan - and now, winner of a $165,000 literary prize

Unemployed, living in a caravan - and now, winner of a $165,000 literary prize

Ali Cobby Eckermann, an Australian indigenous poet forcibly taken from her family as a child, discovered without warning last week she had just won one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
by Colin Dwyer

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America's 'complacent class': How self-segregation is leading to stagnation

America's 'complacent class': How self-segregation is leading to stagnation

Economist and author Tyler Cowen worries that Americans' desire to keep changing has gone away. "The forward march of progress," he says, "is not the main story today."
by Heidi Glenn

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So presidential: Alec Baldwin working on Trump satire

Actor Alec Baldwin is teaming with author Kurt Andersen on the satirical book "You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump."
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