WATCH: Novelist C Pam Zhang in Conversation with John Freeman

Click below to watch the first virtual meeting of the Alta California Book Club, which Books Editor of Alta Journal David Ulin describes as: an opportunity for us to rethink the book club as a kind of ongoing process involving events, involving posts and interviews and discussions on the Alta website, and to really think about […] The post WATCH: Novelist C Pam Zhang in Conversation with John Freeman first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Ebury signs climbing memoir from poet and novelist Mort

Ebury has signed a memoir from poet and novelist Helen Mort which it says could do for climbing what other books have done for running and wild swimming. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Haynes pays tribute to founder John H Haynes with new biography

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Picador is publishing The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by Irish Book Award-winner John Connell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pam Muñoz Ryan: Illuminating a Timeless Struggle

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Tom Lutz fights for L.A. publishing, this time as a novelist

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New Literary Prize Will Award $150,000 to a Female Novelist

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Actual cancel culture: White House threatens John Bolton about impending book.

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Literary LA: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Tom Lutz

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