This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day: no better time to stock up on books.

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow, August 29th, is Independent Bookstore Day. This year, the festivities will be both online and in-person at 600+ local bookstores around the country, starting tonight with a conversation between Mary Norris and Ann Goldstein about Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults. Sure, every day is independent bookstore day […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Sign up for the Los Angeles Times Book Club

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Book Riot’s SFF Deals of the Day for March 6, 2023

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Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good onesThe key to being a good writer? It’s being a good reader, authors including Carol Ann Duffy and Alan Moore have said... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists

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