Rita D. Jacobs is a professor of English at Montclair State University who teaches contemporary fiction and drama. Her most recent book is The Way In: Journal Writing for Self-Discovery. When she’s not writing for others, she’s writing in her journal and encourages you to do the same.
Elizabeth Strout is one of the keenest chroniclers of daily life and family interactions writing today. In The Burgess Boys, the excellent follow-up to her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge, she splits her screen between small small-town Maine and New York City, particularly Park Slope, Brooklyn, to brilliant effect.
Jeff Baron has started a new literary adventure with his novel I Represent Sean Rosen. Baron shows in his first novel the keen ear of a playwright, one perfectly attuned to his character’s voice -- and what a voice it is.
Eight American war heroes are on the last stop of a Victory Tour at a Dallas Cowboys game. From here, Ben Fountain gives us a brilliant, satirical, and incisive portrait of contemporary America.
Endearing fifteen-year-old Bee hails from an atypical Seattle family. When her genius mom, Bernadette, disappears, Bee sets out on a mythic mission to find her, in Maria Semple's humorous, heartfelt epistolary novel.
The soulful man who gazes out at the reader from the cover of the must-read memoir Who I Am may seem at odds with the enfant terrible, guitar-smashing version of Pete Townshend the public might envision.
Jhumpa Lahiri's debut book of short stories -- which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize -- examines the Indian immigrant experience in America with beautiful writing, nuanced depth, and poignant cultural insight.
Mawer has made a classy entry in the real of spy thrillers -- leaving us as entertained as usual, but doubly as breathless.
Modern readers will find that the social, moral, and romantic dilemmas in Edith Wharton's timeless classic, The Age of Innocence, still resonate today.
Based loosely upon the life of Papusza, a Gypsy poet from the 1930s, Colum McCann takes us through time and across Europe, charting the romantic, familial, and political history of a captivating, determined woman in his moving novel Zoli.
To say that Dorian Gray is an exemplar of self-indulgence, vanity, and sensual greed is too simple, for the novel resonates in more complex -- and always modern -- ways.
Towles' debut novel chronicles a heroine's ascent to the high life amid a whirl of Manhattan uptown, downtown, and everywhere in between.
Nathan Englander's stories challenge, surprise, delight, and challenge and his latest collection is no exception.
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
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