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| | The Library of Congress, in partnership with its Affiliate Centers for the Book and PBS Books, is producing an ongoing video series called American Stories: A Reading Road Trip, to celebrate the county's 250th birthday. Each installment showcases one state or territory's notable writers, bookstores, libraries, and literary locales. Only a smattering of episodes are available to stream so far, but they've already covered more ground than Sufjan Stevens.
Of course, I took special interest in the depiction of my home state of Washington, delighted to be reminded of the lasting legacies of local heroes such as Octavia Butler, Raymond Carver, and Tom Robbins, alongside living legends like Timothy Egan, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, and Jess Walter. But my favorite part was the actual road trip recommendations, most especially the Frank Herbert Trail on the Dune Peninsula of Point Defiance Park, complete with quotations from the novel and a bronze sandworm sculpture. How did I not know about this waterfront marvel? I simply must visit!
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 | | Brawler | | | Lauren Groff |
| | | Motherhood, violence against women, midlife decisions, and coping with loss are among the themes of the superb Brawler, Lauren Groff's third short story collection.
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| | Gunk | | | Saba Sams |
| | | Saba Sams's debut novel is a beautiful and provocative exploration of motherhood and the relationship between two very different women.
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| | The Rare Bird | | | Elisha Cooper |
| | | A child's capacity for joyful creativity is mimicked in this clever, charming picture book in which a cat imagines a role far outside its city apartment.
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| | I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home | | | Fergus Craig |
| | | In this funny and clever cozy mystery, a 75-year-old former serial killer must solve a murder at her retirement home so that the police and other residents will stop thinking she did it.
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| | | | | | A young Japanese carpenter in 1903 experiences the integration of American and Japanese culture as he settles into the "Crown City" of Pasadena, Calif., in this satisfying mystery.
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| | | | This poetic, otherworldly dark-academia fantasy novel with a fairy tale bent centers on a young woman's accidental bargain with a magical city.
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| | | | This delightful romance novel features two meteorologists caught in the storm of the century.
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| | | | In this grand, sweeping work of history, Maria Popova connects the many human traversals--both physical and emotional--that have shaped the course of science and art.
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| | | | In 12 electrifying essays, Savala Nolan writes with devastating precision about societal truths women grapple with every day.
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| | | | The 30 elegant poems in Lisa Martin's third collection employ flora and fauna metaphors to capture the fleeting nature of life and the inevitability of change.
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| | | | Jack Balderrama Morley examines the phenomenon of reality television through the houses featured in popular series, and considers what these homes say about the world we might all yet live in.
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| | | | This galvanizing reminder from Rebecca Solnit that incremental progress can still bring about monumental change draws inspiration from the past while looking to a more hope-filled future.
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| | | | Animal lovers and readers who appreciate emotional narratives will delight in this ultimately hopeful middle-grade novel inspired by true stories of cheetahs and dogs in zoos across the globe.
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| | | | Kids aged three to eight are sure to delight in this uproarious picture book that eschews expected social customs in favor of the absurd.
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| | | | Eleven-year-old Kaz may never sleep again in Midnight Mayhem, an unconventional and hysterical middle-grade adventure.
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| | | | The complicated tendrils of identity, equity, and diversity are untangled in this soul-satiating YA debut about a student who struggles with her place in an elite San Francisco public high school.
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| | |  Janie Chang is the author of Three Souls, Dragon Springs Road, The Library of Legends, and The Porcelain Moon; and co-author with Kate Quinn of The Phoenix Crown. Her new book, The Fourth Princess, is a gothic novel set in Old Shanghai and centered on two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand mansion. And in today's interview, Chang discusses the power of genre in fiction and her Wuthering Heights-related pilgrimage. (continued)
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| | | |  Edward Hoagland, "whose shimmering essays explored the wonders of the natural world, the sights of faraway places and his own journeys into blindness," died February 17 at age 93, the New York Times reported. John Updike called him "the best essayist of my generation," and Philip Roth praised him as "America's most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist."... (continued)
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