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How Student Debt Killed the Plot

Sunday, September 11, 2022 - 5:00am

By Jennifer Wilson

Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad

Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 8:18am

The novelist talks about her Pulitzer-winning book, which includes one chapter written as a PowerPoint presentation, and Stephen Fry discusses Greek mythology.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List

Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 5:00am

By Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon, the author of “Everything, Everything,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “Instructions for Dancing,” recommends a few of her favorite Y.A. love stories.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Review: ‘Before We Were Trans,’ by Kit Heyam

Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 5:00am

By Meredith Talusan

Kit Heyam’s “Before We Were Trans” spans continents and millenniums to prove that where there is humanity, there is nonconformity.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

A Back-to-School Book List for the Ages

Friday, September 9, 2022 - 11:09am

By Karina Yan Glaser

Karina Yan Glaser, author of the Vanderbeekers series, recommends picture books, chapter books and novels for preschool to middle grade readers.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

'If I Survive You' is a sweeping portrait of a family's fight to make it in America

Friday, September 9, 2022 - 10:15am

By Maureen Corrigan

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in this kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.

(Image credit: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Source: NPR Book Reviews