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Karen DeWitt interviewed the author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a clever, bittersweet, wonderful novel that takes one unnamed man from poverty to riches in a 70-year journey in an unnamed Asian city.
A look back at the reviews and features that attracted the most readers last month.
Kathy Harig, owner of Mystery Loves Company, writes about four recent mysteries and thrillers that you might have missed.
This monthly feature invites readers to (re)discover a work that’s so rich and delightful it calls for slow reading to appreciate it fully.
Karen Sagstetter is a writer, editor and teacher who has published poetry and fiction in 40 literary journals. Her collection of short stories, The Thing with Willie was published late last year.
We interview the author of The House Girl, a novel that, in Independent reviewer Gerry Hogan's words, "has so many strengths that it is hard to know which to highlight...."
If memoir is the genre of truth, how could it possibly be acceptable to lie? Wasn’t James Frey fried because he lied? And yet, I venture to say that it is indeed OK to lie in memoir.
The first step is admitting you have a problem, and I admit: I have a problem.
