A book-signing event and Q&A panel featuring three local authors will be held at 3 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Harvell-Bishop-Arnold Trail Post, 58 Preble Ave. in Madison. Featured authors are: • Poet and Green Beret Ryan Stovall, author of “Black Snowflakes: Smothering a Torch” • English professor and poet Dr. […]
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Penguin Classics, Marvel to issue new editions of 3 comics
Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords.
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Ex-premier Johnson signs deal for memoir
The former journalist has written several books.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Notes on the Landscape of Home’ and ‘The Outhouse in Winter’
A collection of 32 essays that explore sense of community, and a coming-of-age adventure during the summer of 1959
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AUTHOR EVENT: Tim Cotton
Listen as Cotton tells stories about all things in the dooryard
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‘Night of the Living Rez’ a finalist for national prize
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
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’
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’
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
The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.