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The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano 27 Aug 2013 | 11:44 am
The Unknown University is a generous, 800-page omnibus of Roberto Bolano's complete poetry, a bilingual tome, with Spanish on left pages and English translation on right pages, showcasing Bolano's poe...
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26 Aug 2013 | 11:44 am
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a story of race and culture that follows the lives of two Nigerian children who fall in love in secondary school and are separated when one departs for America...
Crime Writer Elmore Leonard dies at 87 21 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Crime writer Elmore Leonard died in his home yesterday from complications due to a stroke. Leonard, the author of nearly 50 novels, didn't have a best-seller until he was almost 60-years-old, when he ...
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson 20 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Jean Thompson's sophomore novel is a commentary on our current social atmosphere and our motives for doing good deeds. The Humanity Project follows an interested cast of characters, all of whom are lo...
The Sunshine When She's Gone by Thea Goodman 15 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
The Sunshine When She's Gone is about two parents' quest for happiness after the birth of their daughter. While the mother, Veronica, tests the waters on her first childless weekend, the father, John,...
Lexicon by Max Barry 13 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
Max Barry's novels (Jennifer Government, Company) tend to be equal parts satire and thriller and Lexicon is no different. In a near future, a secret society of "poets" are being trained in an ancien...
The Age of the Image by Stephen Apkon 8 Aug 2013 | 10:29 am
Stephen Apkon's The Age of Image is a celebration of the evolution of storytelling from cave paintings to moving images and, with the nearly ubiquitous availability of the tools to create video, he ar...
Joyland by Stephen King 5 Aug 2013 | 10:22 am
A haunted amusement park on the North Carolina shore in 1973 is the setting for Sstephen King's Joyland, in which Devin Jones recalls his coming-of-age amongst carnies, fortune tellers, ghosts, and an...
Gary Shteyngart meets Google Glass 1 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Gary Shteyngart became an iPhone user while doing research for his 2010 novel, Super Sad True Love Story. The author's latest dive into new technology is with Google Glass. As the result of a twitter ...
Autobiography of Us by Aria Beth Sloss 29 Jul 2013 | 10:18 am
Rebecca and Alexandra form a friendship in elementary school that haunts them for the rest of their lives. Despite growing apart in college after Rebecca keeps a deep secret from her friend, they reun...
