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‘Night of the Living Rez’ a finalist for national prize

by Eric Russell January 10, 2023January 11, 2023

Levant author Morgan Talty’s collection is one of three up for The Story Prize.

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An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel

by Ilana Masad January 8, 2023January 7, 2023

Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.

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OFF RADAR: ‘Elegiaca Americana: Poems’

by Dana Wilde January 6, 2023January 5, 2023

Claire Millikin’s intense poems track the inner life of the poet from her childhood in the South to her adulthood in New England.

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OFF RADAR: ‘Fairy Tale’

by Dana Wilde December 30, 2022December 28, 2022

If you are a fan of the Dark Tower books, this somewhat offbeat version of them is likely to capture your attention.

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Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023

by Associated Press December 28, 2022

The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.

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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Soft Features’ and ‘A Countryman’s Journal’

by Bill Bushnell December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

A debut novel by central Maine author Gillian Burnes, and a collection of 77 essays by Roy Barrette

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New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing

by Frank Freeman December 18, 2022December 17, 2022

‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?