Kelly Blewett
Content by Kelly Blewett
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Sensual isolation: two words that come to mind when considering The Metropolis Case, the debut novel by Matthew Gallaway. In Gallaway’s world, characters burn with intensity.
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With his powerful 6'7" frame and a severe case of Tourette’s syndrome, Hanagarne defies the stereotype of the timid librarian, turning his love of books into a rewarding career.
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Sarah Bird’s latest novel, The Gap Year, is a must-read for anyone who loves mother-daughter stories.
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As Isabelle Stein’s car rushes headlong into a woman on a foggy highway, she glimpses a small boy running away from the road.
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British journalist David Whitehouse has built his first novel on a crazy premise: A young man, flush with life and deeply in love, decides that pursuing adulthood in normal terms is a complete wast
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“Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke Williams tells his wife, author Terry Tempest Williams.
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In one of the most disturbing scenes in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, the saintly Marmee says to her daughter Jo, “I have been angry nearly every day of my life.” Eve
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Cleaning Nabokov’s House is a laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read. Our main character, Barbara Barrett, is a divorced mother deemed emotionally unstable by the court.
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Sometimes we read fiction not to better understand our own lives but to get a glimpse into a life beyond our own.
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There has been a lot written about the Bush and Cheney days, but rarely from such an amusing perspective as in Francine Prose’s My New American Life.
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Willa Jackson may have moved back home to Walls of Water, North Carolina, but that doesn’t mean she wants to be there.
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History buff Andrew Carroll—best known for his remarkable work in archiving and publishing American wartime letters—offers a new book that profiles 50 or so forgotten locations in the U
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Pam Lewis’ latest novel sprawls from Amsterdam to Argentina to the United States, carrying along a slim, quiet protagonist who is swept wherever fortune takes her.
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Meet Tom Bedford.
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In The Neighbors Are Watching, Debra Ginsberg explores the delicate equilibriums of her characters’ lives behind the closed doors of their southern California neighborhood.
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Jacob’s story may sound familiar. After a healthy babyhood, he began to change as his second birthday approached. His speech slowed and then stopped. He ignored his peers and parents.
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Those who have found solace in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Joyce Carol O
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Imagine a man who can bend a horseshoe with his hands, whose outsized literary interests include everything from Jonathan Franzen to Stephen King and who towers above most of us at six feet seven i
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For fans of searingly honest memoirs, the publication of Susanna Sonnenberg’s She Matters is a cause for celebration.
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The Hangman’s Daughter, written by a descendent of the very family this historical mystery features, was already an international bestseller before being released in the U.S.
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There’s just something about the early ’60s: the drinks, the conservatism, the consumerism, the Cold War. And the astronauts.
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Theresa Weir, better known as prolific suspense writer Anne Frasier, admits she received a lukewarm reception when she approached her publishing contacts about her latest book idea.
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Two baby girls, dubbed by one mother as the “birthday sisters,” are born on the same day in a rural Vermont hospital.
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The third installment of Emily March’s Eternity Springs series, Heartache Falls tells the story of Mackenzie and Alison Timberlake.
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