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'Luna: Wolf Moon' Is A Howling Good Read

7:00am April 01, 2017

by Jason Sheehan

No one builds worlds like Ian McDonald. In Luna: Wolf Moon, he gives us a lunar colony ruled by five brutal, powerful dynasties, orbiting an Earth wracked by scarcity wars and political squabbling.

Purple, Prose: The new book Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve subjects thousands of books to statistical analysis.

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'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

5:25pm March 31, 2017

by Glen Weldon

In his new book, statistician Ben Blatt loads thousands of books, new and old, into a vast database and uncovers intriguing patterns in how our favorite authors write.

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During World War II, Even Filmmakers Reported For Duty

3:04pm March 31, 2017

Mark Harris says the military worked with Hollywood directors to create movies about the war. His book, Five Came Back, is the basis for a new Netflix docu-series. Originally broadcast March 3, 2014.

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Incendiary 'Report' Exposes Business-Suited Torturers

11:00am March 31, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

Ernie Colón and Sid Jacobson, who previously adapted the 9/11 Commission Report as a graphic novel, set their sights on the Senate's 2014 report on the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Jerry Miller says he always held out hope for exoneration. "I made a logical decision to do positive things and to think positive," he says.

An Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'

10:05pm March 30, 2017

by Ari Shapiro

Jerry Miller spent more than 25 years behind bars for crimes he didn't commit. His story is part of a new collection that pairs exonerees with mystery/thriller writers.

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#ThanksForTyping began a conversation on the uncredited female labor in academia.

#ThanksForTyping Spotlights Unnamed Women In Literary Acknowledgments

3:33pm March 30, 2017

by Cecilia Mazanec

A professor shared book acknowledgment pages, where men thanked their wives for typing their manuscripts. #ThanksForTyping soon sparked a conversation on women and their uncredited roles in academia.

Ferris takes on real and imagined horrors in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

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In 'Monsters,' Graphic Novelist Emil Ferris Embraces The Darkness Within

1:58pm March 30, 2017

After West Nile virus left her paralyzed, the Chicago illustrator had to relearn how to draw. She says that experience was key to the publication of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

Cover detail of One of the Boys, by Daniel Magariel.

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'One Of The Boys' Tells The Story Of A Corrosive Father-Son Relationship

1:35pm March 29, 2017

by Maureen Corrigan

Daniel Magariel's debut novel explores the fierce love a 12-year-old boy has for his abusive father. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a "slim, deeply affecting and brutal story."

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Bob Dylan speaks onstage at the MusiCares 2015 Person Of The Year Gala in Los Angeles. Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in October, though he has not yet accepted it. The Swedish Academy has announced he plans to do so this weekend in Stock

Bob Dylan Agrees To Accept His Nobel Prize During A Tour Stop In Stockholm

11:04am March 29, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Since the American musician won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, he has not yet picked up his award in person or delivered the customary lecture required for him to receive the prize money.

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Celebrating A Glorious Life Of Excess In 'A Really Big Lunch'

7:00am March 29, 2017

by Heller McAlpin

Jim Harrison lived as he wrote — vividly. One year after his death, a new collection of his essays on food, wine, writing and aging brings him roaring back in all his immoderate brilliance.