How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

Alison L. Strayer is an award-winning writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted twice for the Governor’s General Award for Literature and for Translation. Her translation of Annie Ernaux’s The Years was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019 and won the French-American Translation Prize in the nonfiction category as well as the Warwick Prize […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Saturday is Love your Bookshop Day. 5 reasons why readers keep coming back to independent book stores

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'The Sandman' teaser shows the capture of Morpheus

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