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In Ada Zhang’s short story collection The Sorrows of Others, people of all ages confront personal and cultural losses.

Throughout the book, Chinese and Chinese American people face an age-old problem: loneliness in the company of others. Whether contemplating their relationships with spouses, roommates, former friends, or parents, each character is faced with difficult decisions regarding where to live, whom to live with, how to deal with the painful past, and whom to forgive.

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Petit Interview With Lucianne Tonti!

Foreword Reviews is so excited to share another Petit Interview! This time with the ever-brilliant Lucianne Tonti, author of "Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing." Tonti is the fashion editor of The Saturday Paper and a regular contributor to The Guardian where she writes the series Closet Clinic.

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HARPER COLLINS STRIKE

An update on the HarperCollins strike after a tentative agreement between HarperCollins and Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers! They've released separate, identical statements Thursday night. Read more at NPR!

Image Description: Attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York on May 28, 2015. Mark Lennihan/AP

HarperCollins and striking union reach tentative agreement

HarperCollins Publishers and the union representing around 250 striking employees reached a tentative agreement providing increases to entry

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Reviewer Rebecca Foster Interviews Matthew Vollmer, Author of All of Us Together in the End

Away with our normal, ever-so-scintillating intros and straight to a challenge: Can you read Matthew Vollmer’s answer to Rebecca Foster’s fi

Away with our normal, ever-so-scintillating intros and straight to a challenge: Can you read Matthew Vollmer’s answer to Rebecca Foster’s first question without coming to a profound new realization about words and thought, seeing and feeling? Give it a shot.

Then read Rebecca’s review of Matthew’s All of Us Together in the End. Then buy the book.

We’re outta here.

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Reviewer Rachel Jagareski Interviews Florian Schäfer and Janin Pisarek, Authors of Hausgeister!

All religions have trouble playing nice in the playground of life, but Christianity may deserve the biggest-bully-of-all title. See: the cru

REVIEWER RACHEL JAGARESKI INTERVIEWS FLORIAN SCHÄFER AND JANIN PISAREK, AUTHORS OF HAUSGEISTER!

"All religions have trouble playing nice in the playground of life, but Christianity may deserve the biggest-bully-of-all title. See: the crusades, the inquisitions, and even the Holocaust, which only gained its foothold in Nazi Germany after centuries of antisemitism in Europe.

But today we’re going to look at an especially vulnerable target of Christian wrath: the wichtel, moosweibchen, draks, geldmannlein, kobolds, poltergeists, and other supernatural beings that used to inhabit the homes and wooded regions of Northern Europe. This time, the church chose to demonize the creatures as a means to combatting superstition overall.

Florian Schäfer and Janin Pisarek, are scholars of the house spirits of the German-speaking world—bet you didn’t know that major was available when you went to college—and their years of study led to the fascinating Hausgeister!, which earned a great review by Rachel Jagareski in the pages of Foreword.

Their conversation reveals that there wasn’t much to fear in these creatures. In fact, Rachel gets Florian and Janin to admit which spirit they’d invite into their own home.

Enjoy."

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