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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
By Dan Sinykin
What does consolidation at the top mean for readers?
Rip Van Winkle’s Republic
Edited by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Appraising a 19th-century master through a 21st-century lens.
Blurb Your Enthusiasm
By Louise Willder
A congenial consideration of the words that lure us inside the covers.
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
By John McPhee
The master wordsmith reflects on his stumbles and false starts.
Body Work
By Melissa Febos
There’s strength in telling your own story.
Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Robert R. Garnett
Analyzing the author via his lesser-known stories.
Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
By Chris Laoutaris
A superb account of how the Bard’s compendium came to be.
The Unwritten Book
By Samantha Hunt
This unusual, challenging work will resonate with (some) readers.
