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#1621: Author Louis Bayard’s “Courting Mr. Lincoln”
Louis Bayard’s new novel, “Courting Mr. Lincoln,” is an intimately drawn evocation of the love between the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two...
#1620: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original – poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” is a sweeping and shattering portrait of...
#1619: Karen Russell’s “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”
Karen Russell is the author of the New York Times best sellers Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!, which was a finalist for...
#1618: T. C. Boyle’s “Outside Looking In”
T.C. Boyle’s novel, “Outside Looking In,” takes readers back to the 1960s and to the early days of LSD. The book tells the story...
#1617: Courtney Maum’s latest, “Costalegre”
Acclaimed author Courtney Maum’s latest, “Costalegre,” is the striking, heartbreaking and strange story of a privileged teenager who has everything a girl could wish...
#1616: Casey Cep’s “Furious Hours”
Casey Cep’s “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” looks at the dual mysteries of a notorious crime and a...