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‘Red at the Bone’ author Jacqueline Woodson wants to tell the stories we don’t hear about black family life
‘I have always felt this deep responsibility to tell a bigger truth and enlighten on a different level’
November 5, 2019
November 5, 2019
Ann Patchett refuses to buy a smartphone. Maybe that’s why she’s written so many books.
Last week, Patchett released her latest novel, ‘The Dutch House’
October 3, 2019
October 3, 2019
The ‘very intimate, very intense’ world of Angie Kim’s ‘Miracle Creek’
The debut novel by Kim is Lily Lit Club’s September pick
September 16, 2019
September 16, 2019
15 captivating portraits of the women behind books you love
The authors of ‘The Baby-sitters Club,’ ‘The Incendiaries’ and other books gathered at the National Book Festival
September 5, 2019
September 5, 2019
Our Lily Lit Club pick defies traditional storytelling. Here’s how.
‘Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me,’ written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, marries two forms of storytelling
August 15, 2019
August 15, 2019
Women are supposed to love motherhood. In ‘Patsy,’ Nicole Dennis-Benn explores what happens when they don’t.
In this new summer read, a woman leaves her 6-year-old daughter with a father she hardly knows
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019
A school shooting, the AIDS crisis and an elusive talk show host: In this book, there’s more than meets the eye
‘The Spectators,’ by Jennifer duBois, is June’s Lily Lit Club pick
June 12, 2019
June 12, 2019
Valeria Luiselli tackles one of the country’s largest debates in her latest novel — all while defying narrative convention
‘Lost Children Archive’ is April’s Lily Lit Club pick
Mesha Maren’s debut novel dissects what rebuilding a life after prison looks like
‘Sugar Run’ is this month’s Lily Lit Club pick
February 12, 2019
February 12, 2019
‘Those Who Knew’ by Idra Novey addresses the ‘patriarchal messages we have been marinating in’
‘Those Who Knew’ is January’s Lily Lit Club pick