Slimani's 'erotic, daring' story of sex obsession to Faber

Faber will publish another novel from Lullaby author and journalist Leïla Slimani about a Parisian woman who appears to have the perfect life but is struggling with sex addiction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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In 2014, book critic Dwight Garner published a lament in the New York Times for a seemingly forgotten literary masterpiece, the oral history All God’s Dangers. Published in 1974 by then-Harvard doctoral candidate Theodore Rosengarten, the autobiography was narrated by Nate Shaw, an illiterate... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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The Best Short Stories about Fathers and Fatherhood

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The Best Short Stories about Family

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Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother’s Holocaust Story

An 18-year-old student and a 98-year-old survivor teamed up to write “Lily’s Promise,” a best-selling memoir of Auschwitz and its aftermath. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom

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The Fight to Decouple Sex From Marriage

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Selma Blair shares stories of abuse and MS, but she doesn’t want pity

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A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story is the One Facing Us.’

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