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Happy 50th to Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’
You read it in high school or college or after or maybe just last week and it probably changed your life, a whole lot or just a little bit. And it turns 50 today.
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This week: King Arthur, Lehane, “Anne” and Norm!
“Since We Fell” by Dennis Lehane (Ecco) After she loses it on air, former journalist Rachel Childs has barely left the house. And then an encounter causes her life, marriage and possibly sanity to fall …
Bret Anthony Johnston’s American Short Fiction story takes £30,000 award
Texas writer Bret Anthony Johnston (“Remember Me Like This” has won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for his story “Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses,” originally published last fall in Austin …
Celebrate Opening Day with seven terrific baseball books
Happy Opening day to one and all. Were it my decision, this would be a national holiday, but we do what we can.
Here are a few of my favorite books about baseball and my all …
This week: ‘American War,’ an X-Men relaunch, the music of Waylon Jennings and much more
“American War” by Omar El Akkad (Knopf). Terrifying, post-apocalyptic debut novel from this Egyptian-American author, perhaps a bit slipstreamish (think “Station Eleven,” maybe, “) on the sci-fi spectrum. It’s 2075 and America is …
Dan Chaon, Patty Yumi Cottrell among those announced for New Fiction Confab
Dan Chaon, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Alexandra Kleeman, John Pipkin, Deb Olin Unferth and Yoojin Grace Wuertz will be dispensing writerly wisdom as part of the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation’s 8th annual New Fiction Confab, which …
Ottessa Moshfegh reads from her excellent ‘Homesick for Another World’ Jan. 31 at BookPeople
Ottessa Moshfegh’s excellent short story collection “Homesick for Another World” contains a darkness that feels almost cancerous in spots. Author of the breakout 2015 novel “Eileen” (which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize …
