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'The Downstairs Girl' Faces Difficult History With Joy And Style

7:00am August 25, 2019

by Caitlyn Paxson

In Stacey Lee's new novel, an opinionated and talented Chinese American girl makes her way in Reconstruction-era Atlanta while preserving her secret work as an advice columnist in the local paper.

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Tope Folarin Was 'A Particular Kind Of Black Man' — So He Wrote A Book About It

5:17pm August 24, 2019

by Michel Martin

The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale from the Nigerian-American writer, his debut novel, finds a child of African immigrants growing up in Utah.

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In 'Automatic Eve,' Steampunk Meets 'Blade Runner' — In Japan

7:00am August 24, 2019

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Rokuro Inui's mosaic novel is set in a lush alternate Japan, full of cricket fighting tournaments, beautiful automata and intricate webs of plot and counter-plot around the mysterious Eve.

The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez

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Buying Greenland? That's Nothing To Gabriel García Márquez

7:00am August 24, 2019

by Nina Martyris

Gabriel García Márquez's intricate, confusing, magnificent novel centers around a monstrous, nameless dictator — known only as the General or the Patriarch — who sells the entire Caribbean Sea.

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Top Publishers Sue Audible, Alleging Encroachment On Text Territory

7:17pm August 23, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The seven plaintiffs, which include all of the publishing industry's Big Five, say the audiobook company is violating copyrights with a planned feature that would transcribe audiobooks for listeners.

The World Doesn't Require You, by Rion Amilcar Scott

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Characters Shine In Powerful, Dreamy 'The World Doesn't Require You'

10:00am August 23, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Rion Amilcar Scott's second story collection returns readers to his fictional town of Cross River, Md., site of America's only successful slave uprising, and God is one of the best-known residents.

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'Going Dutch' Is A Charming, Well-Observed Debut

7:00am August 23, 2019

by Ilana Masad

James Gregor's novel about a gay man who falls into an intense relationship with a woman mixes old-fashioned style and contemporary setting. His observations on human nature are precisely rendered.

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Rion Amilcar Scott Returns To Cross River In 'The World Doesn't Require You'

4:58pm August 22, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with author Rion Amilcar Scott about his new collection of short stories entitled, The World Doesn't Require You.

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A Perfect Summer Book, 'Late Migrations' Reminds Us Of Life's Beauty And Fragility

12:19pm August 22, 2019

by Maureen Corrigan

Margaret Renkl's vivid and original essays capture the cycle of life in a new book that will make you want to stay put, reread and savor everything about the moment.

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, by Jill Heinerth

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'Into The Planet' Captures Cave Diving's Mortal Risks — And All lts Glory

10:19am August 22, 2019

by Gabino Iglesias

Jill Heinerth's memoir leads with her thoughts as she wonders if she will die underwater, setting the tone for an honest and engaging book about life as one of the world's top cave divers.