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In September, the Editors of Bold Type announced our First Annual Short Story Contest. Four months and one million words later, we are pleased to announce the results. |
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Willy Muller, the anti-hero of Zoë Heller's Everything You Know, navigates his tumultuous life with a deft blend of apathy and intolerance. Read an excerpt from Heller's hilarious and poignant debut novel and an interview with the author. |
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Stephen Amidon's ambitious story of racial and class conflicts set in a newly-built planned community outside of Washington, D.C. in 1973 is a powerful social novel, reminiscent of The Ice Storm and the recent work of Richard Price, had his settings been suburban rather than inner-city. The New City is a grand and haunting piece of fiction, utterly gripping and superbly rendered.
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Amanda Foreman's biography of Lady Georgiana Spencer (great-great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales) won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and was a bestseller for months. Not content with the role of society hostess, Georgiana became one of the most influential figures in English politics, while concealing a private life troubled by uncontrollable gambling, drug taking, and love affairs. |
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