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This Year’s Pulitzer Winners Feature War, Divorce, and Sword-Fighting

This Year’s Pulitzer Winners Feature War, Divorce, and Sword-Fighting

This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners are an interesting batch, with subject manner running the gamut from North Korean orphanages to the real-life Count of Monte Cristo. Here’s the lowdown on these newly anointed winners—let us know if you’ve read any of them in the comments, or share what book you [...]

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Authors You Need to Read: Tim Powers

Authors You Need to Read: Tim Powers

He’s won the World Fantasy Award, the British Science-Fiction Society Award, and other awards with the word “fantasy” in them. But if you aren’t a loyal reader of those kinds of books, you might not know who he is. But you really should!

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6 Comforting Books to Read When You’re Sick

6 Comforting Books to Read When You’re Sick

Being sick is the perfect excuse to stay in bed all day, guilt-free, devouring great books. Let’s not pretend your brain is firing on all cylinders, though. Now is not the time to dive into Moby-Dick. No, when you’re aching all over and your head is a snot factory, you want [...]

by × April 9, 2013 × 5 comments