fiction
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There is a particular kind of reading experience that is difficult to explain without sounding as though something improbable has occurred. You are reading as you always do, moving through sentences, following an argument, inhabiting a voice, and then something shifts. A line stops you. Not because it is especially beautiful, or clever, or even…
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If suspense is your thing, then Linwood Barclay’s Elevator Pitch might be just what you’re looking for. It starts with an actual elevator pitch by a scriptwriter, which ends way worse than the expected “no” from the executive he’s been stalking. By the end of Monday, five people are dead – four in what seems…
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South Africa can claim to have some of the best writers around. From books on motherhood to shattering exposes of the country’s colonial and racist past, from stories on the history of the Kruger National Park to the social movement creating a “pink line” around the planet, there is much to celebrate, even in the…
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There are so many feels on this wonderfully crazy journey Samantha and Holly, once best friends, have barely spoken in two decades. Now they’re trapped together with a stranger, two dogs and a cat, driving from California to Wisconsin. You know that in any good road trip story, where people are forced together, they have…
Jenn Writes 