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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why… — Andrea Barrett
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it… — George Pelecanos
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's… — Gina Berriault
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with… — Joshua Mohr
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,… — Christine Schutt
Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this… — Mark Billingham
I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was… — Emily Gould
The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's… — Terry Teachout
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light… — Unknown Author
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more… — Unknown Author
Facebook is the novel we are all writing — Katie Roiphe
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is… — Jesse Kellerman
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and… — Colleen Coble
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will… — Rabih Alameddine
It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel. — Unknown Author
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Unknown Author
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the… — Unknown Author
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a… — Sara Gran

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