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Join us for an evening with local writer Bruce Overby (The Cyclone Release and recently released Tristan 4 America) with Geri Spieler (Housewife Assassin, Regina of Warsaw) serving as moderator.…

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Why we read stories about power, ideology, and the people caught in between

Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less , joins us to discuss Villa Coco, a novel that showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep knowledge of focaccia. 

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A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.

Movember researchers have analysed the TikTok viewing histories of 142 young men to go inside the digital worlds shaping masculinity today. Here’s what they found, and why it matters.

Here’s the thing: If you’re a reader—and I expect most of you who still receive this newsletter are—you should always feel free to reach out to an author whose book you’ve read and admired, because receiving messages of appreciation are absolutely the nicest thing that can happen to an author. Last month, I received just such a message out of the blue on Facebook. It came from a connection from the distant past, a fellow student at Branham High School in the 1970s, a friend of a friend, and it absolutely made my month, and possibly my year.

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