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Our favorite female heroines

March is Women’s History Month, and tomorrow we’ll be celebrating 10 women writers to watch in 2012. But today is all about some of our favorite fictional women. I bet we can all relate to this feeling: While reading a … Continue reading

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Best Books of 2011, #13: ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ by Geraldine Brooks

As part of our Best Books of 2011 coverage, our editors weigh in on some of their personal favorites from the list. Geraldine Brooks has a genius for finding history’s most fascinating stories. In Caleb’s Crossing, she turns to the early … Continue reading

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Best Books of 2011: #11-#20

We’re creeping ever-closer to the top of our best books of 2011 list. Watch for our Top 10 in just two days!  In the meantime, tell us what your favorite book of 2011 was. If you do, you could win … Continue reading

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Monday Contest: Best American Collection

The end of the year is approaching. Have you made your “Best of” lists yet? Geraldine Brooks was working on hers early this year, as the editor of Best American Short Stories 2011.  Here’s what she told me about assembling … Continue reading

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‘Caleb’s Crossing’ and the lure of language

Today marks the publication date for Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, the subject of our May cover story. Telling the tale of an early part of American history, the book follows a young Native American boy who becomes a Harvard graduate—in … Continue reading

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All-star editors for Best American series

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the editors for its 2011 Best American series (via Shelf Life), and there are a lot of BookPage favorites in the bunch. Click on the editors’ names for our reviews of their past books. The … Continue reading

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Geraldine Brooks has a new book coming on May 3!

As a fan of Brooks’ fiction and nonfiction, I just couldn’t omit the exclamation point from the title of this post. Her second novel, March, a riff on Little Women, won the Pulitzer for fiction [read our interview with Brooks about … Continue reading

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