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Ann Patchett Revisits Bel Canto

Danzy Senna Creates Worlds She Wants to See

Dwayne Betts Is Proof That A Book Can Change Your Life

Paula Hawkins is a Mystery Master

Richard Osman Begins a New Series

Wright Thompson Investigates His Home State

Katherine Rundell Believes in Children’s Lit

Elizabeth Strout Unites Beloved Characters

Spoken Word Poets Write Their Catharsis

Dr. Fei-Fei Li Explains AI

Jodi Picoult Envisions A Woman Behind Shakespeare's Work

Emily Nussbaum Explains Why We Should Take Reality TV Seriously

Evan Friss Traces the History of American Bookstores

Whoopi Goldberg Hails Her First Loves

Ben Shattuck's Short Stories Span Time and History

Hope Jahren Expands on Mark Twain

J. Ryan Stradal Tackles His Next Novel

Rachel Khong Asks, 'Who Is A Real American?'

Joseph Kanon Conjures WWII Shanghai

Catherine Newman Brings Us to Cape Cod

Sarah Langan Crafts a Dystopian Mystery Thriller

Scott Preston Writes a UK Western

Two Editors Who Changed Publishing

Book Store Owners Present Their Top Summer Reads

George Stephanopoulos Takes Us To The Situation Room

Heidi Reimer Examines Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Redemption

Erik Larson Illuminates History

Carlos Lozada Makes the Case for Political Memoirs

Kao Kalia Yang Captures Her Mother's Story

Tommy Orange Traces Indigenous Trauma and Triumph

Amor Towles Writes a Novella His Way

Richard Roper Delights With New British Rom-Com

Introducing the 'Writer in Residence' Series with J. Ryan Stradal

Tana French On Writing An Irish Western Murder Mystery

Anna Quindlen Explores Life After Death

Sloane Crosley Processes Her Grief With Humor

Diane Oliver's Posthumous Debut

Kate and Charlie Gibson's Favorite Love Stories

Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of Ellen and William Craft

Live: Kate Gibson Revisits Horror

Kaveh Akbar Finds Meaning in Martyrdom

Inci Atrek Lives In Two Worlds at Once

Ashley Elston On How To Write A Whodunnit Heist Novel

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow Explores Mother-Daughter Dynamics

Mitch Albom Wrote a Tale of Lies and Truth

Patricia Cornwell Dives into the Mysterious World of Kay Scarpetta

How to Inspire Your Kids to Love Reading

Jon Clinch Explores the Final Days of Ulysses S. Grant

Lawrence Wright Takes On Texas Politics

Jennifer Vanderbes Chronicles the Dark History of Thalidomide

Diana Walsh Shares Her Manual on Leadership

Alice McDermott on the Women Behind the Vietnam War

Our Halloween Horror Reading Recommendations

Tan Twan Eng Takes Us Through The House of Doors

Writers of the Movie "Airplane!" On The Rules of Comedy

Amanda Gorman’s Poetry Slays Monsters

Kate DiCamillo Transforms Children's Fiction

Stephen Graham Jones Writes Hopeful Horror

Sebastian Barry Carries the Irish Torch

William Kent Krueger Takes Us To Minnesota

James McBride Masters Historical Fiction

Andrew Ridker Writes With Hope

Jennifer McMahon Writes What Scares Her

Esmeralda Santiago is Back in the Book Case

Ann Patchett Juggles Writing and Bookselling

Markus Zusak Revisits The Book Thief's Legacy

Laura Spence-Ash Travels Back in Time

Mihret Sibhat Writes an Ethiopian Epic

Josh Malerman Delivers the Scares

Shelley Read Starts Her Second Act

Michael Finkel Catches an Art Thief

Kate and Charlie Pick Winners

Dave Eggers Crafts New Fables

Christopher Golden Scares Us

James Comey Writes a Thriller

Alexandra Robbins Studies Teachers

Henry Grabar Parks That Thought

Dave Barry Makes Us Laugh

Brendan Slocumb Finds Hidden Notes

J Ryan Stradal is Back in the Book Case

Charles Frazier Sheds Light on American Optimism

Rebecca Boggs Roberts Unveils Edith Wilson

Timothy Egan Rewrites History

Harlan Coben Will Find You

Beverly Horowitz Adapts Heather McGhee for YA

Michael Schulman Goes To the Oscars

Alex Prud'homme Dines at the White House

Rebecca Makkai Has Some Questions For You

Amity Gaige Knows How to Write Tension

Julie Otsuka is a Master of Memory

Stuart Gibbs is Back in the Book Case

Ayana Gray Creates New Worlds

John Boyne Revisits The Past

David Sedaris is Back in the Book Case

David Sedaris Journals Gold

Esmeralda Santiago Dreams Her Reality

The Holiday Gift Guide

Barbara Kingsolver Grapples with American Poverty

Nelson DeMille Keeps His Readers Guessing

Kate and Charlie Talk Turkey