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When Life Drops a Coconut on Your Head…

A Las Vegas comic billed as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Lonny Day has built his career around impressions, especially a dead-on imitation of the President. Then the President is assassinated, Lonny’s signature act becomes unthinkable and almost everything else in his life starts coming apart. His wife, Doris,…
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September 16, 2026
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Finding Light in the Shadows of Memory

From the Cyclops Cave is a memoir written by Don Schofield where an American poet, long settled in Greece, rents a house on the island of Kýthnos that the locals call "the Cyclops Cave." Alone there for three summers and two Easters in '92, '93 and '94, gazing out at…
BookTrib
September 14, 2026
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The Man Who Made the Beatles

Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles is the brainchild of columnist Philip Norman, former rock music critic for The Times and noted biographer of numerous acclaimed musicians and other public figures. Lauded for his first book, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation, published in 1981, his…
Linda Hitchcock
September 11, 2026
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Poetry That Finds the Holy in the Hard Places

Laura Wifler came to poetry late and, by her own account, reluctantly. For much of her life, she thought the form was obscure, overly complicated ... and simply not for her. Then, while homeschooling her children, she encountered poems that were clear without being simplistic, beautiful without requiring a decoder…
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September 15, 2026
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The Worst of Both Worlds in “Exit Party”

Emily St. John Mandel, the author known for titles like Station Eleven, returns with another engrossing work of speculative fiction. Exit Party brings us the worst of both worlds as it explores two very different futuristic versions of a post-collapse United States. The story opens in the year 2031 as…
Riley Harker
September 15, 2026
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The Stories You Love Aren’t Done with You Yet

If you’re anything like most readers out there right now, you can’t get enough of reimagined classic stories (cue Jane Austen’s romances, Frankenstein, The Odyssey, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca). I understand the appeal. While writing my own novel, Burning the Raven Tree, I found myself…
Janyre Tromp
September 15, 2026
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Poems for the Long Journey of the Soul

What if autobiography did not begin with birth or end with death? What if the story of a life included people we have loved before, lessons carried from one incarnation into another, unfinished relationships that find us again and glimpses of worlds beyond the one we can see? Diane Skye…
Cynthia Conrad
September 2, 2026
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Find New Reads That Match Your Taste in TV

Dear readers, No surprise that I love films or streaming shows about writers and the writing life and these past few weeks I binged My Brilliant Career on Netflix. Set in beautiful rural Australia in the year 1900, this miniseries tells the story of a powerful young woman who dreams…
Meryl L. Moss
September 11, 2026