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Stephen King’s novella Mile 81 (Simon & Schuster) heralded in the arrival (n full) of the e-book era back when it was first (electronically) published in 2011. Mile 81 wasn’t excerpted from something else. It wasn’t a reprint. It was an ebook,…
What would you risk to achieve your ambition? Would you risk the lives of your family and colleagues to get out of a financial hole? Would you risk all for the next big deal? How far is too far? Layers of Deception…
Beloved British novelist Rosamunde Pilcher died Wednesday in hospital in Dundee, Scotland at the age of 94. From The Guardian: Her son, the author Robin Pilcher, confirmed the news to the Guardian . “She had been in great form up until Christmas,…
Want some reading material for game day? Here’s a few suggestions. Short Story Book Club offers a round up of football short stories. No really. That’s a thing. You have your game day gear on. You’ve got the food heating on the…
Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure is the story of Jacoby Pines, a disheartened American who arrives in Italy on holiday and decides he never wants to leave. What follows is a wine-soaked, food-filled, travel-laden adventure about one man’s quest for an antiquated…
We go long stretches without hearing anything from him at all. Then something happens that kicks up his name again, and we all chatter about him. But as it turns out, he really doesn’t care. We’re talking about Jonathan Franzen, of course….
The story of four old friends reuniting to contemplate their 60th birthdays turns into a marvelous, magical mystery tour with plenty of surprises and laughs along the way. An enchanting exploration of aging, art, philosophy, feminism, and motherhood, written with style and…
As November and National Novel Writing Month zoom towards us, author Sam Wiebe makes a case for economy with a push on the art of the short story and #ShortStoryReadingMonth, a initiative he’s made on Twitter. In a Facebook post a few…
The next Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel will be 1937’s Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Justice League) has been tapped to star and the project is moving full steam ahead with release planned for late 2019….
Chupacabra Meets Billy the Kid (University of Oklahoma Press) is the third installment in Rudolfo Anaya’s ChupaCabra series, following up on 2006’s Curse of the ChupaCabra and ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO from 2008. The stalwart protagonist of the series, Rosa Medina,…