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A modern werewolf novel attempts to give 21st-century terror an additional bite.
A pivotal battle of the American Revolution receives an incisive historian’s focus.
The charming writer of I Can't Complain on self-esteem, second chances, and happy endings.
The Irish novelist looks back on a life of trails blazed.
The author of The Liars' Gospel on making unorthodox fiction out of the life of Jesus.
Will the life and writing of a lost American genius receive a posthumous second act?
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