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Out of the Box

…to buy books; it’s also a place to find kindred souls. If you already know what you want to read, Amazon is almost impossible to resist. Buying a book online

The Novelist and the Nun

…subject of Patchett’s new essay in the British journal Granta. The piece is not available online, but Granta assistant editor Patrick Ryan describes it as “a moving essay … about…

Writers in the Red

…literary scene, including thriller author Dan Brown, literary novelist Ann Patchett, literary nonfiction author Rebecca Skloot, and children’s author Rosemary Wells, among many, many others. In an interview today at…

Beautiful Boy

…and blogger Katie Allison Granju. Henry Granju was addicted to drugs, and died in May after suffering an overdose. The special airs commercial-free at 7:00 pm in East Tennessee, and…

"Duskdawn"

…     kids up and say Boys, failure           is imminent, but try to do it all better than your old men,      pour your little sweet guts and hopes into everything. Mostly, I…

Book Excerpt: Kingfisher Days

…As invisible as Chesterton’s mailman in that story, you know that story. Then a winter day they barter singularity, reply to dusk in twos and threes and merge into plural

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