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On the day of the 2017 solar eclipse, Debbie Urbanski was hiking in the Adirondacks, as she often did, when, coming down from Algonquin Peak, she slid down the trail and broke her leg. Lying there in excruciating pain, waiting to be ...

In early August, after Andrew Lipstein published The Vegan, his sophomore novel, a handful of loved ones asked if he planned to quit his day job in product design at a large financial technology company. Despite having published two books with the ...

Malcolm Gladwell ought to be a familiar name for anyone who's even casually interested in sociology and psychology. Many of his books are bestsellers and, combined, he's sold an estimated five million of them worldwide. It was his first book, ...

Jeff Sharlet has made a career out of writing about "bad people." In a way, writing about horrible people gives him some control. They influence our lives, whether we like it or not, and by seeking them out, Sharlet can see them ...

It's been a while since we've heard from Haruki Murakami (well, apart from hearing him as a radio DJ from time to time, but that's another story). But now, the Japanese author seems to have something new up his ...

Paulia Belgado became a romance novelist by posting 280 characters on Twitter and less than 500 characters on Facebook. The global publishing company Harlequin was holding a pitch event on social media, and so Belgado decided to try her luck. Her story ...

In Jason Tanamor's novel Vampires of Portlandia, a family of aswangs immigrates from their homeland the Philippines to the United States' Pacific Northwest. Settling in Portland, Oregon, the aswangs are surprised when they discover other aswang breeds living among them. Tanamor, ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer prize in 2016 for his debut novel The Sympathizers. Telling a genre-spanning story that's part-mystery, comedy and history, the book has been praised for giving a fresh and compelling new perspective to the ...