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The Nobel Prize Was Made for Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk. Photo: © K. Dubiel. I’ve been saying it for years! Every fall, the big night would come and I would set my alarm…
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What Poetry Can Predict
Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back is an account of the first few years after her twenty-five-year-old son Carl died…
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6 Books to Stave Off the Sunday Scaries
You’ve had a fantastic weekend of relaxation, fun, and maybe even a little productivity. You’re feeling good. But then, sometime around 3 PM, you realize,…
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The Most Interior Text of the 1300s
And you’ve never heard of it… Decameron—that’s a long book. I powered through it this past summer. I was like a self-propelled lawn mower, had…
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Kickstart This: Rainbow Punch Press
Do your books need a little bookish bling to go along with them? Are you always drooling over the cool finds in our regular Book…
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6 Ways to Immerse Your Reader in the Setting of a Story
Imagine The Shining taking place in a shopping mall. Or the movie Se7en set in sunny Florida. It just wouldn’t work. The setting of a…
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A Bluebeard of Wives
Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. Bluebeard Illustration, “What She Sees There,” by Winslow Homer, 1868 “Sabrina,” says my…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 3rd, 2019
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The Intelligence of Plants
What if plants are smarter than we think—a lot smarter? Miguel Rio Branco, Untitled, Tokyo, 2008 © Miguel Rio Branco A few years ago, Monica…
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