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Rare photo of Charles Dickens sporting ‘glorious’ moustache goes on show
Source: The GuardianDaguerreotype profile shows an unfamiliar face to modern readers but delighted the author, who found the whiskers ‘charming, charming’ Summon up an im... Read More
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Dave Eggers: How Can Kids Learn Human Skills in a Tech-Dominated World?
Source: NPRFiction can serve as a window into multiple realities--to imagine different futures or understand our own past. This hour, author Dave Eggers talks te... Read More
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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
Source: The GuardianThe Holocaust and history; a young gay man in South Korea; a wartime epic from Finland; plus two tales of love and abandonment The Memory Monster by ... Read More
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‘I yelled with joy’: how Caleb Azumah Nelson went from Apple store employee to Costa First Novel award winner
Source: The GuardianThe London writer on the success of his first book, Open Water, the limitations of masculinity and why his writing shouldn’t be compared to Sally Roon... Read More
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The month’s best paperbacks: Katy Wix, Michael Wolff and more
Source: The GuardianLooking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, including a moving family history, exciting debut novels and a memoi... Read More
BREAKING
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Four New Crime Novels
Source: NYTStephen Hunter’s new novel, “Targeted,” features the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger — who’s still a crack shot — in his 12th adventure.... Read More
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Worn by Sofi Thanhauser review – a panoramic history of getting dressed
Source: The GuardianFollowing five materials through history, this richly evocative study exposes past snobberies and contemporary exploitation People have always dressed... Read More
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Story inspired by near miss with Fred West wins the Portico prize
Source: The GuardianJudges of the £10,000 northern writing award said Sally J Morgan’s novel ‘vividly evokes a time when women lived in mortal fear’ Sally J Morgan has wo... Read More
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Revisiting Black history through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston
Source: CS Monitor“You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays” by Zora Neal Hurston creates a powerful and nuanced mosaic of Black culture. ... Read More
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Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect
Source: NYTThe comedy writer, known for shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place,” has a surprising new project: a book about moral philosophy that ... Read More
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Kate Clanchy ‘parts company’ with publisher after discrimination row
Source: The GuardianAuthor whose Orwell prize-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me sparked online controversy last summer will no longer be published by Pan... Read More
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'The Urge' says calling addiction a disease is misleading
Source: NPRA psychiatrist says calling it a disease takes important attention away from racism and other things that are often associated with addiction. (Image ... Read More
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