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“Life: a love story” by Elizabeth Berg – Book Review @RandomHouse @PenguinRandom #LifeALoveStory #NetGalley #BookReview

Anyone who has read Elizabeth Berg will know that she is famous for writing character-driven, emotionally impactful stories. Again, she has delivered a wonderful novel with a title...

Emma Cline on Rendering the Human Experience

The author discusses her story “The Blight.”

“The Blight,” by Emma Cline

You weighed the future anger of others against the present trouble, and then you pretty much said, O.K. Kick the can down the road.

Shelf Life: Julie Andrews

The author of Shy takes ELLE’s literary survey.

Shelf Life: Karin Slaughter

The author of The Secrets We Hide takes ELLE’s literary survey.

Relatable and readable novels in this month's contemporary fiction: Laura Clark is Away From her Desk by Helen Russell, ...

Sara Lawrence reviews

Naomi Fry’s Favorite Book

Hint: Meryl Streep was in the movie adaptation.

Booker Prize semifinalist list includes previous winners Douglas Stuart, Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout

Judges read 163 novels to come up with the 13 semifinalists announced Tuesday for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) Booker Prize.

The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written

You wouldn’t have bet on it, the frail famous poet teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor and the athletic secretary of the campus residence half her age. But every great love...

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Richard Yates and the tragedy of agency

Following up on Richard Yates (see last year’s post, Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned Chatbot), I came across his collection of short stories from 1962, Eleven Ki...

Ruth Leon recommends…. The Secret Life of Edith Wharton

 Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story... The post Ruth Leon recommends…. The Secret Life of Edith Wharton appeared first on Slippedisc.

IN THE DEW OF LITTLE THINGS

On a Tuesday morning in 2024, three Atlanta-based women receive the unfathomable news that the fourth member of their close-knit friend group is missing. From that devastating mome...

Author Amy Chozick’s Favorite Character-Driven Reads

The former New York Times reporter's eclectic list spans everything from David Foster Wallace's tennis essays and Miranda July's viral midlife romp to murder mysteries set in luxur...

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

"Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it... It appears wherev...

Sheila Heti on the Mystery of Lust

The author discusses her story “Earthly Delights.”

Mind the Gap by Alice Zorn

As in the piece that provides the book’s title, when Barbara meets her Austrian cousin Freddy as an adult, much has changed in the interim.

Claire Fuller: ‘Dylan Thomas showed me that writing could make me feel everything’

The novelist on being inspired by Shirley Jackson, discovering the brilliance of Denis Johnson, and finding comfort in Elizabeth StroutMy earliest reading memory When I was five a...

On Love Letters to Nowhere

By Elizabeth J. Wenger Is it possible to be from the most splendid nowhere in the world? A blank expanse in the minds of others? Of course it is. I’m from Oklahoma. Perhaps you’ve...

Home is where the art is: the rise of the epic domestic novel

Writing about home life doesn’t have to be humdrum argues the author of Natural Disaster – just look at world-spanning, taboo-shattering works such as Ducks, Newburyport and All Fo...

Inside the Nantucket Home of Best-Selling Author Elin Hilderbrand

Inside the home where the best-selling author has written many of her books — and is secretly working on a new novel.

A NEW CHAPTER AT MIDNIGHT

Aurelia Lyndham is on the cusp of major changes in her life. She’s the owner of On the Square Books, and she’s in the process of editing her latest novel and planning her wedding t...

Everything We Know About <i><em>Klara and the Sun</em></i>

Shelf Life: Robinne Lee

The author of Crash Into Me takes ELLE’s literary survey.