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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Rosen |Katherine Rundell |Olivia Laing |Jonathan Coe |Ali Smith |Rutger Bregman | +6 more
Zadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life of a Hungarian bodyguard/driver in their midst. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète (out 23 September) vividly depicts the slums of contemporary Haiti via a very online young sex worker who lives her best life on Facebook.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
journalgazette.net | Curtis Sittenfeld |Rob Merrill
With a wink to every writing teacher’s favorite adage, Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Show Don’t Tell” delivers a dozen short stories that will make you think, smile and often nod your head in agreement. Featuring mostly middle-aged characters from the middle of the country, it’s an assortment focused on people either reconsidering formative moments in their lives, or in situations that force them to challenge their long-held beliefs.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Alice Jolly |Curtis Sittenfeld |Jojo Moyes |Elinor Lipman
Among the noteworthy reading recommendations in this week's issue, we spotlight Markus Zusak's moving and vulnerable memoir, Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth), about the canine members of his family and the challenge of writing about them. In the "lighthearted, humor-filled" Change of Heart, romance author Falon Ballard fabricates a whimsical small town where true love is crucial for one single-minded lawyer to get home to Manhattan. And YA author Emily J.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Curtis Sittenfeld |Isabelle McConville
The Plot of Time: A Guest Post by Curtis Sittenfeld A sharp collection of musings on middle-age, life, love and regret, Show Don’t Tell is a funny and intimate exploration of domestic discontent from the author of Prep and Romantic Comedy. Read on for an exclusive essay from Curtis Sittenfeld on writing her brand-new collection.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld’s new stories include a ’Prep' sequel and ‘grouchy, liberal, Midwestern women’Local fiction: The Minneapolis novelist also is writing her first novel set here.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
womensprize.com | Arundhati Roy |Margaret Atwood |Curtis Sittenfeld |Katherine Heiny
Bryony Gordon is an author, journalist and mental health campaigner. She has written six Sunday Times bestselling books, including the number one bestsellers Mad Girl and You Got This. She founded Mental Health Mates, a peer support group that encourages people to move for their mental health, and in 2023 she was awarded the President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Jessa Crispin |Curtis Sittenfeld
It’s never comfortable when a novelist starts to have a shtick. Uncomfortable, for obvious reasons, for the critic, and too comfortable, to the point of being cosy, for the reader. You know before you open the book who the characters will be; the beats and rhythm of the plot; how everything will be wrapped up in the end. It’ll all be adequate, but not in the slightest challenging. It will satisfy you like a big bowl of spaghetti.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
waterstones.com | Anne Tyler |Jojo Moyes |Curtis Sittenfeld |Garrett Carr
Posted on 29th January 2025 by Mark Skinner From page-turning fiction to essential cookbooks and more, fall head over heels for the fantastic selection of publishing coming out this February.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Danzy Senna |Curtis Sittenfeld |Lily King
For readers of White Oleander by Janet Finch, fans of Carson McCullers or Jane Smiley, Lily King’s Writers and Lovers is a big-hearted story of love and family, loss and grief. When Casey moved to Massachusetts in the summer of 1997, she had no partner, no job, and no clue what to do next. While waiting tables at a restaurant, working on a six-year-old manuscript, and falling in love with two different men, Casey is in crisis mode, and she’s doing her best not to flail.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
slate.com | Curtis Sittenfeld |Dana Stevens |Julia Turner |Stephen Metcalf
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