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Page Getz Delivers Frank Capra for the 21st Century in Goodnight, Kansas

Can a fish-out-of-water save a polluted lake — and an entire community? Given their long gestation time, it’s stunning how some novels feel preordained to speak to the moment in which they’re published. A Town with Half the Lights On by Page Getz truly is one such book. Which is…

JeriAnn GellerApril 17, 2025

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11 Cures for Your Season Three White Lotus Hangover

Did you become far too invested in The White Lotus Season Three for it to only be eight episodes? Have you scrolled through every Tweet, TikTok carousel and Instagram comment about the finale and still aren’t satisfied? Are you dreaming of a vacation where the conversation poolside is seeping with…

BookTribApril 6, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Death Is Full of Surprises in Touching Literary Fantasy

Here’s how death works: Up there, you’re not allowed to leave your residence or contact other dead people — although you’ll be afforded any leisure pastimes or hobbies that may interest you. No one said death wasn’t boring. The only exception is if your phone rings and you are contacted…

Jim AlkonApril 3, 2025

Fiction Miscellany

Author Talks Inspiration, Characters and Humor in Joyfully Unhinged Novel

Marcy Dermansky is my favorite author this week! She makes me laugh, she makes me think, and I now am spending time wondering what preposterous thoughts are in other people's minds (or even my own mind) that are not shared! In Hot Air, there is a first date, a bad…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 21, 2025

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7 Books That Are So Confusing (In the Best Way)

When was the last time you were fully immersed in a book? When you looked up from the page and took a moment to remember where you were, when the last time you drank water was, and wondered, since when had the sun gone down? For a lot of us,…

Cameron KimballNovember 4, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

A Debut Author with “Killer Potential” Talks Writing Process and Getting Published

“I was once a famous murderess. I killed a wealthy family, Manson-style, and then I went on the run. But my thing wasn’t about starting a race war to reach the land of milk and honey or secretly wanting to be a Beatle. According to the news, I was just…

Neil NyrenFebruary 28, 2025

Fiction

Quiet Secrets and Hidden Lives Shine in a Story of Redemption and Connection

Shy Creatures is one of those rarities in literary fiction, a quiet celebration of the complex human interactions that form lasting genuine friendships and heartfelt relationships that are retained in golden memories. Award-winning British novelist Clare Chambers has written nine novels including Learning to Swim which won the 1999 Romantic…

Linda HitchcockDecember 18, 2024

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Lives and Truths Laid Bare in Short Story Collection

“People are people. They love, they hate, they soar, they pine, they elate, they grieve — and on occasion, they kill.” Award-winning author Bill VanPatten tends to capture all those acts and emotions in his characters, drawing heavily on gay themes and Latino heritage in and around the small, fictitious…

Jim AlkonDecember 3, 2024

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9 Novels That Shine a Light on the Privileged Class of Society

Part of what makes novels so appealing is how they allow us to step into the lives of others. This allows us to not only escape the real world — like in science fiction and fantasy — but also to see the real world through a new lens. To see…

Katie BloomerFebruary 21, 2025

Fiction Miscellany

Maggie Thrash’s Adult Debut is Murder Mystery and Fugitive Love Story Set Amidst Satanic Panic

“Conformity can rapidly become dangerous. It can become violent. I wanted to explore that, and New Hampshire, with its motto ‘Live Free or Die,’ was the perfect setting for that theme.” Rainbow Black (Harper Perennial), Maggie Thrash’s adult debut, begins in idyllic New Hampshire, on the cusp of impending danger,…

Megan BeauregardMarch 19, 2024

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Awaiting Loss, a Family’s Final Reunion Uncovers Cracks in the Foundation

There’s a point early on in James Gilbert’s Reunion by the Lake when Grace, entering the twilight of her life as she and her husband Richard confront his terminal illness, loses her grip of a glass in the kitchen, and it breaks in the sink into long sharp slivers. The…

Jim AlkonJanuary 13, 2025

The Butcher and the Butterfly by Jim Antonini

Fiction Recommended

Boxer and Ballerina Discover Friendship and Hope in Most Unlikely Place

“A butcher can hit… A butterfly can dance.” In the boxing world, there are either butchers or butterflies, as Bobby Raymond’s old trainer used to say. The Butcher and the Butterfly, as its title promises, balances the violent with the delicate, the brutal with the graceful, while paralleling two sports…

BookTribFebruary 10, 2025

Fiction Listicles

Celebrate the New Year with These 8 Novels About New Beginnings

You probably hear it every year: “New year, new me!” For some, it’s an annoying jingle. For others, it’s a promise. And why shouldn’t it be? Our lives are full of new beginnings, sometimes planned, sometimes unexpected. We are creatures of habit, and sometimes it takes outside forces to shake…

Katie BloomerJanuary 2, 2025

Fiction Listicles

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

There’s nothing better than being lost in a book and letting a story overtake you. Some fiction is life-changing and permanently alters your worldview. Other books bring you to tears and consume your thoughts for the subsequent days or weeks. If you’re a reader who seeks out the kinds of…

Megan BeauregardDecember 10, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: The Remarkable 18th-Century Tale of Clara the Celebrity Rhino

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisNovember 27, 2024

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9 Novels About Finding Oneself Away from Home

Not all who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien It’s a sentiment as old as storytelling itself. Sometimes, a person needs to go on a grand journey to discover who they really are. There’s something about leaving home — leaving what’s known and comfortable — that makes a person reflective…

Katie BloomerNovember 21, 2024

11 Cures for Your Season Three White Lotus Hangover

Death Is Full of Surprises in Touching Literary Fantasy

7 Books That Are So Confusing (In the Best Way)

Lives and Truths Laid Bare in Short Story Collection

9 Novels That Shine a Light on the Privileged Class of Society

Maggie Thrash’s Adult Debut is Murder Mystery and Fugitive Love Story Set Amidst Satanic Panic

Awaiting Loss, a Family’s Final Reunion Uncovers Cracks in the Foundation

Boxer and Ballerina Discover Friendship and Hope in Most Unlikely Place

Celebrate the New Year with These 8 Novels About New Beginnings

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

Books & Looks Podcast: The Remarkable 18th-Century Tale of Clara the Celebrity Rhino

9 Novels About Finding Oneself Away from Home

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