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December 7, 2012

"Detroit is an opera, it’s Mount Everest" A Conversation with Mark Binelli

Mark Binelli, author of Holiday '12 Discover pick Detroit City is the Place to Be -- an incisive and wryly comic exploration of an American City left for dead -- discusses what he found when he moved back home to Detroit and what the city really needs, among other things, with Discover Great New Writers.

December 5, 2012

"None of Us Give or Receive a Perfect Love": A Q&A with Ayana Mathis

We're not the only readers who fell in love with Ayana Mathis's terrific debut The Twelves Tribes of Hattie --this sweeping story of quiet heroism and imperfect family love is the second pick of Oprah’s Book club 2.0®. In this exclusive Q&A with Discover Great New Writers, Ayana discusses the profound changes brought by The Great Migration, what it feels like to be alone in a crowd, and her "hard to love" character, Hattie Shepard.

December 4, 2012

"I Thought I Knew You": A Conversation with Gregory Martin

Cheryl Strayed calls Gregory Martin's memoir, Stories for Boys, "moving, brave, and unforgettable." Martin discusses when memoirs go wrong, the unravelling of secret lives, writing about family (and how much children need to be told), among other things with Discover Great New Writers.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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Happy Money

“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia.

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret. A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.