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Interview: Eddie Huang
A Vice TV host with a law degree, a hip-hop obsession, and a NYC restaura… more »
Eddie Huang’s Top 5 Hip…
Eddie Huang, celebrity chef, TV host and author of the memoir Fresh Off t… more »
Discover: Historical Fiction
Why read historical fiction? For one thing, you can gain new insight on f… more »
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Sl…
In this slim tale centered around a London ladies’ hostel at the en… more »
Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeeper…
Reaching back to the first century, Hoffman offers a feminist retelling o… more »
Amy Bloom, Away
After surviving the pogroms that killed her parents, husband, and child, … more »
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife…
This fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage, to… more »
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief…
Death narrates this now-iconic young adult novel about an illiterate youn… more »
Alice Munro, The View from Ca…
The escape to a better, imagined life, the poisoning influence of pride a… more »
Classic Teen Reads
It’s hard to believe, in this age of Twilight, The Hunger Games and… more »
Lois Duncan, Down a Dark Hall…
The book that forged the teen suspense genre Though Duncan has written mu… more »
Six Degrees of The Great Gats…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bo…
Unusual life and eatery experiences in compelling, well-paced morsels New… more »
Benjamin Hale, The Evolution …
The autobiography of a chimp In this audacious, gleeful debut, Benjamin H… more »
Six Degrees of Slaughterhouse…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook…
A charming contemporary retelling of a Jane Austen classic Charm and wit … more »
Martin Amis, The Pregnant Wid…
A comic yet cautionary tale about the casualties of sex unhinged from fee… more »
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivi…
A tour de force novel based on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville Reading … more »
Colum McCann, Let the Great W…
A death-defying feat of literary daring Colum McCann’s death-defyin… more »
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal …
Themes of race, class and the role of ethics in science at a seat-edger p… more »
Books That Thrill
You’ve seen them in airports, and on the morning commute. They… more »
Judy Blume, Are You There God…
The proto-YA novel Since it first appeared in 1970, Judy Blume’s th… more »
Katherine Paterson, Jacob Hav…
insight into the teenage girl insecurity vortex Right from the outset Sar… more »
Holiday Blasphemy
As the days count down to Christmas and we’re collectively whipped … more »
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eMusic Features
Interview: George Saunders
By Amanda Davidson, eMusic Contributor
George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »
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