by Steph Cha A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart. Juniper Song knows secrets–how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always […]
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Our notions of health and wellness (both charged terms these days, one might add) are still stuck in a paradigm that wouldn’t be out of place in ancient Greece; what goes on inside us must somehow be visible and recognizable on our bodies’ surface. In her Guardian essay on the rise…
Originally posted on James Harrington's Blog of Geek and Writing:
? This is more of a rant, so if you’re looking for advice, you can skip this post. Have you ever seen or read about a character that at some point in the story encounters an issue that he was neither the cause of…
Originally posted on Blissful Scribbles:
The Marriage Mender: The #1 Bestselling Author by Linda Green My rating: 5 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this story from Linda Green. The book follows a relationship counselor through the journey of having to attend marriage counselling herself. There are plenty of satisfying flashbacks, twists and intrigue that…
by Lisa Scottoline An Edgar Award nominee (for her first legal thriller, Everywhere That Mary Went), Lisa Scottoline actually won the Edgar for her follow-up, Final Appeal. With five legal thrillers behind her, Scottoline–a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School–has joined the league of lawyers-turned-literaries. Her voice in Final Appeal is crisp and […]
Originally posted on Mark it Right:
I just started a book a friend recommended some time ago and I’m really liking it. It’s a book about thinking about thinking, exactly the sort of thing I like to think about. To put it more clearly, the author analyzes intuitive, emotional thought and deliberate logical thought, complex…
Originally posted on Cristian Mihai:
For any aspiring writer, a rejection letter, regardless of the provenience of said letter, is one of the most dreaded of objects. In this line of work getting rejected is considered a sort of literary murder – people are knowingly destroying something you’ve spent time on, and a lot of…
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Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer | The Farm in the Green Mountains | New York Review Books | May 2017 | 11 minutes (2,896 words) ? Below is an excerpt from Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer’s memoir The Farm in the Green Mountains. Having fled Nazi Germany, the Zuckmayers ended up spending several years of their exile on a farm in Vermont, where they engaged in…
Originally posted on Daniel Douglas' Blog:
Source: Scott Laumann TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY is the “non-fictional” account of Steinbeck’s road trip across America in 1960. (I put the word “non-fictional” in quotes because although Steinbeck portrayed his journey as a cut-and-dry retelling of actual events, much scrutiny has been put to its authenticity in recent years.)…
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Cody Delistraty | Longreads | May 2017 | 8 minutes (2,228 words) ? Born in Zimbabwe on August 28, 1972, Paula Hawkins’ family moved to London when she was a teenager. Although writing fiction interested her in her younger years, her stories generally remained unfinished. After graduating from Keble College, Oxford,…
