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I just love this book. And that Peter S. Beagle was 19 when he wrote it is astounding. It's the OG of living-in-a-graveyard books.
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A Fine and Private Place
Check out A Fine and Private Place - <B>This classic ghost story from the author of <I>The Last Unicorn</I> follows Jonathan who’s been living in a cemetery with a raven as his only friend among...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I just love this book. And that Peter S. Beagle was 19 when he wrote it is astounding. It's the OG of living-in-a-graveyard books.
bookshop.org/a/1095/97816...
#PeterSBeagle-affiliatelink #TheLastUnicorn
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#PeterSBeagle-affiliatelink #TheLastUnicorn
Celebrating Indigenous Nonfiction bookriot.com/2025-native-...
Celebrating Indigenous Nonfiction
Read your way into some of the best new nonfiction by Native writers that hit shelves this year.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Community Building in Boston’s Kid Lit World
Community Building in Boston’s Kid Lit World
Last month, greater Boston children’s book publishers and booksellers gathered for “good old community-building” at the inaugural Kid Lit Night, hosted by Nosy Crow and Charlesbridge Publishing.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Community Building in Boston’s Kid Lit World
Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus!
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Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix review – chronically funny satire of the literary scene
Full of word games, in-jokes and grisly murders, this debut pours gleeful scorn on the pretensions of contemporary literary life
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November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus!
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Calling All Future Voters!
Dedicated to supporting the industry and promoting children’s books and reading
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November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Calling All Future Voters! cbcbooks.org/2025/11/13/c...
Follett and Mackin Expand to Public Libraries in Wake of Baker & Taylor Shutdown
Follett and Mackin Expand to Public Libraries in Wake of Baker & Taylor Shutdown
Follett Content, a distributor of children’s and young adult (YA) print books, content, and services to PreK–12 school libraries, announced in September that it will begin distributing to public…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Follett and Mackin Expand to Public Libraries in Wake of Baker & Taylor Shutdown
‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner
‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner
The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner
One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI
One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI
One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suits
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI
Who's placing bets?
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2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature
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November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Who's placing bets?
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Some very nunconventional advice…
A new book applies advice from Renaissance-era nuns to modern life
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to scholars Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita about their new book on nuns, "Convent Wisdom," and what we can learn from them.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some very nunconventional advice…
“Human Written.” Why Sarah Hall Put a Maker’s Mark on Her New Novel
“Human Written.” Why Sarah Hall Put a Maker’s Mark on Her New Novel
Helm is my tenth work of fiction, and the front jacket of the novel will feature a Human-Written maker’s mark—one of the first in the book trade. I’m not exaggerating when I say this novel took dec…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“Human Written.” Why Sarah Hall Put a Maker’s Mark on Her New Novel
Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning
A landscape of illusory peace is depicted just before the guns of battle reach it in the first world war
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November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Writer Richard Flanagan: The Possibilities of Life
Writer Richard Flanagan: The Possibilities of Life
“Whatever the answer is to the great questions, it doesn't exist within yourself. It exists within others. And your relationship with others.”
We met Australian writer Richard Flanagan behind the…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Writer Richard Flanagan: The Possibilities of Life
Arshile Gorky’s New York in Images and Memory
Arshile Gorky’s New York in Images and Memory
A new book published by Hauser & Wirth captures the life the artist rebuilt through art after escaping the Armenian Genocide.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Arshile Gorky’s New York in Images and Memory
‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels
A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books
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November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Love it!
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A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books
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November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Love it!
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Some heavy hitters — John Irving and Salman Rushdie among them — have new books out
Some heavy hitters — John Irving and Salman Rushdie among them — have new books out
This week also brings a National Book Award finalist from Bryan Washington and a Booker finalist from Andrew Miller.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Some heavy hitters — John Irving and Salman Rushdie among them — have new books out
Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review
Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review
Reality is twisted and sanity jumbled in Sam Munson's surreal psychological novel, The Sofa. Reviewed by Nick Rees Gardner.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review
A Writer Embraces the Chaos—and Comedy—of the Classroom www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A Writer Embraces the Chaos—and Comedy—of the Classroom
Raquel D’Apice, Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and author of the picture book 'I Am a Highly Dangerous Warrior!,' shares how her messiest and wildest experiences as a substitute teacher help fuel…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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