BEA 2015: Franzen says 'It gets harder to write novels, not easier.'

A capacity crowd of approximately 1,000 people turned out to watch BEA's curtain-raising event, a highly anticipated conversation between bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen and Laura Miller of Salon.com. The discussion centered on 'Purity,' Franzen's fifth novel and his first since 2010's Freedom, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood

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Katherine Min was ahead of her time. Four years after her death, her second novel proves it

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Modern Library’s Torchbearers Series to Reissue Elaine Kraf Novels

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Writing as an Act of Grieving

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The people’s hero Keanu Reeves has written a novel with China Miéville.

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