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When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

Featuring 322 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special Graphic Lit issue: interviews with Alison Bechdel, San Nalamalapu, Raina Telgemeier & Scott ...

On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces ...

In this ambitious mystery, the prolific and popular King tells the story of a serial murderer who pledges, in a note to Buckeye City police, to kill “13 innocents and 1 guilty,” in order, we ...

Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer ...

Vathy, on the Greek island of Ithaca, has been Virgil Colvin’s home for two years. He left the Chicago Police Department after his wife died and has since fallen in love with Eurydice Pantakalas, to ...

Muriel Blossom acknowledges that she’s a “no-frills” person, a trait that served her well when doing surveillance for Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan. When she gets an unexpected upgrade on her British ...

Greene (Mastery, 2012, etc.) begins with a big sell, averring that his book “is designed to immerse you in all aspects of human behavior and illuminate its root causes.” To gauge by this fat ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...