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Fall means auburn-colored leaves, a chill in the air — and the finest selections publishing houses have to offer. We've already covered the early September releases by Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon and Jonathan Lethem in our summer preview. Regardless...

Born and raised in Chicago, I find myself perpetually drawn to writers who live and work there—and who make the city a character in their stories. I’ve been reading Chicagoan Carol Anshaw’s work for years, having discovered her...

When reading Michiko Kakutani’s review of Jenny Offill’s novel, Department of Speculation (1/29/2014), I was disappointed to find the amount of speculation Kakutani engaged in on behalf of the female narrator (and, seemingly...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Two weeks ago, on Monday May 5 I took out from the Oakridge branch of the Vancouver Public Library, Donna Tart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch. It was a fast read which meant...

Mariano Rivera.  Photo by Keith Allison on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Panamanian baseballer Mariano Rivera has retired from professional baseball after a successful 19-year career. The occasion did not go unnoticed by Panamanians nor by Major League...