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A Q&A with Colum McCann and Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life
Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, Songdogs, Let the Great World Spin (for which he won the National Book Award) as well as two...
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“I am eternally grateful for laughter”: Margaret Robison on writing her...
My 87-year-old friend told me that she’s not at all the same person she was when she was young. She said her mother told her that as an old woman she’d felt the same way she’d felt at 26. My own mother...
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Win two copies of Gail Caldwell’s Let’s Take the Long Way Home: one for you,...
“A lovely gift to readers . . . You can shelve Let’s Take the Long Way Home,Gail Caldwell’s beautifully written book . . . next to The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s searing memoir about...
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
This summer, Reader’s Circle is proud to present in paperback one of the best memoirs we’ve read in years. A few months ago, as we started to think about publishing Gail Caldwell’s extraordinary memoir...
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Alexandra Fuller on writing her African childhood: “I am African by accident”
This week memoirist Alexandra Fuller publishes Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, where she returns to sub-Saharan Africa and the story of her unforgettable family that she first introduced...
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MWF Seeking BFF: A Reader’s Guide
Consider these questions if you’re reading Rachel Bertsche’s irresistible memoir, MWF Seeking BFF: 1) After moving to Chicago from New York City, Rachel quickly realized that “friend-making is not the...
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Jane’s Bookshelf: Food Books As Delicious As Any Good Meal
What does a publisher at the world’s biggest publishing house read for pleasure? (And how does she find the time?) Jane von Mehren is the Senior Vice President and Publisher of Trade Paperbacks at the...
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Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter: A Reader’s Guide
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal •...
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LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE by Anna Quindlen
Discussion Questions for LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE 1. In the opening lines of the book, Anna Quindlen says about the arc of her life: “First I was who I was. Then I didn’t know who I was. Then I...
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A letter to book clubs from LAY THE FAVORITE author Beth Raymer
Lay the Favorite is the true story of Beth Raymer’s years in the high-stakes, high-anxiety world of sports betting—a period that saw the fall of the local bookie and the birth of the freewheeling,...
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A Letter to Book Clubs from Leigh Newman, author of STILL POINTS NORTH
Dear Book Club Readers, Growing up as a girl in Alaska, I had a dad with his own motto, one that came in handy every time our floatplane almost fell out of the sky or we ran into grizzly. “One day,”...
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Reader’s Guide: A Conversation between Anna Quindlen and Meryl Streep
Happy on sale day to Anna Quindlen. Her candid memoir LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE is now available in paperback. Be sure to pick up a copy for exclusive Random House Reader’s Circle material...
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Discussion Questions: STILL POINTS NORTH by Leigh Newman
If you and your book club have Leigh Newman’s beautiful memoir Still Points North in the reading queue then we have the discussion questions to accompany your next meeting. 1. In the beginning, the...
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Reader’s Guide: GLITTER AND GLUE by Kelly Corrigan
“In this endearing, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Kelly Corrigan’s memories of long-ago adventures illuminate the changing relationships between mothers and children—as well as everything else...
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Reader’s Guide: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU by Domenica Ruta
“A luminous, layered accomplishment.”—The New York Times Book Review With or Without You is the story of Domenica Ruta’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s...
View ArticleFeatured Excerpt: NEW LIFE, NO INSTRUCTIONS by Gail Caldwell
Happy Friday! Today we’d like to feature The Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times Bestselling author, Gail Caldwell. Her new memoir, New Life, No Instructions, goes on sale April 1st, but we have...
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Reader’s Guide: A Q&A between Gail Caldwell, author of NEW LIFE, NO...
Beloved and Pulitzer prize-winning author Gail Caldwell sits down to chat with her longtime editor, Kate Medina, about her latest New Life, No Instructions. Kate Medina: Authors sometimes say that...
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Five Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self by Gail Caldwell
Five Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self by Gail Caldwell The author of New Life, No Instructions gives advice for young women based on her own experiences. Her new memoir is about the...
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Discussion Questions: Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
When Kelly Corrigan traveled to Australia in 1992, the only job she could find was as a nanny. Instead of just carpools and babysitting, she walked into a household still grieving the recent loss of...
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