In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long stories—as ...

Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. courtesy amazon If you find yourself with some downtime this long weekend (or just ...

Books create a wonderful refuge from the hubbub of everyday life, but unless you’re on vacation, it can be hard to set aside long stretches of time for reading. How many half-started books have you ...

Twelve years after his death in 2013, Michigan’s own Elmore Leonard has a current book for sale. Dubbed the lost novella, ...

These books will make it easy to meet your Goodreads goals. Courtesy the publishers Every January 1st, we sit down and make resolutions about our goals for the upcoming year. One of the most common is ...

Consider, for a moment, the unforgiving nature of short fiction. Many highly esteemed novels contain stretches that stumble, lumber and digress, with such “fat” either pardoned in the larger context ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other ...

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Jazz legend Teddy Adams and educator, coach and mentor James Green are among eight African American men who have published a ...