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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

March 25, 2011 Ann Patchett spent twelve years as a student at St. Bernard Academy, a Catholic school in Nashville run by an order of nuns called the Sisters of…

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

…wrote Granju on her blog after viewing the special at the station last week. “While it was almost unbearably painful to watch, I also left the station last night knowing…

"Duskdawn"

…told my wife last night, that one day, if we have a little land      in the country, with the barn and animals and all that get-up,           I’d like to have…

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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