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  • Wally Lamb

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    Wally Lamb is the author of seven New York Times bestselling novels: The River Is Waiting, I'll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin' and Hopin', The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's Come Undone. ...more

    If you enjoyed The River Is Waiting,
    try We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt
  • Lindy West

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    Lindy West is the author of three books: the New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill as well as the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit, Actually. Lindy is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York ...more

    If you enjoyed Adult Braces,
    try Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley
  • Mark Whitaker

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    Mark Whitaker is the former editor of Newsweek and the first African American to lead a national newsweekly. He then served as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker's memoir My ...more

    If you enjoyed The Afterlife of Malcolm X,
    try A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
  • T Kira Madden

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    T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer and author of the acclaimed memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which was named a New York Times Editors' ...more

    If you enjoyed Whidbey,
    try Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
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    Sarah Braunstein

    A Q&A with Sarah Braunstein about her short story collection, Baby in a Box.

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    Marie Benedict

    Marie Benedict's historical fiction sheds light on the lives of key historical women. A letter to readers from Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray about their collaboration on their novel, A Pair of Aces.

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    Victoria Christopher Murray

    A letter to readers from Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray about their collaboration on their novel, A Pair of Aces.

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    Gabrielle Sher

    A letter from the author about her novel, Odessa

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    David George Haskell

    A conversation with David George Haskell, author of How Flowers Made Our World

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    Stephanie Sy-Quia

    A conversation with Stephanie Sy-Quia, author of A Private Man.

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