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Did a Best-Selling Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story? January 08, 2025
In the autumn of 2010, Lynne Freeman, a family-law attorney and an unpublished author, put the final touches on her first novel, “Blue Moon Rising.” The story revolved around a teen-age girl named Anna who falls in love with a werewolf and learns tha...
Book Clubs, Book Bars, and BookTok December 16, 2024
Growing up, I could usually be found with my head buried in a book. My favorite places to go were not amusement parks or playgrounds, but libraries and bookstores where my imagination could run wild. Reader, if it wasn’t already obvious, I’m an only ...
Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob October 28, 2024
Although some say we’ve passed peak woke, the modern left’s authoritarian impulse to push other people around is alive and well. It’s just that a memo must have gone out to the faithful that the agenda has switched, and now instead of black lives mat...
Joseph Epstein, Yet Again October 21, 2024
Recently, in an idle moment, I stumbled on a superb piece by Joseph Epstein, “Joan Didion From the Couch,” which reminded me of how the engineering of reputations in the literary world often betrays not only what ought to be our appraisal of objectiv...
A New Chapter in an Old Story October 16, 2024
Just a few weeks ago, writer and publisher Zibby Owens weighed in on Instagram about the latest antisemitic incident in the literary world. Writer Elisa Albert was invited to be on a panel in September at the Albany Book Festival with novelists Lisa ...
