Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Length: 320 pages
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After six years, a young writer struggles with completing her first novel in the midst of grief, longing, and confusion about what it really means to be an adult….

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The Editor by Steven Rowley
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Length: 320
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Much to his delight James Smale finds his debut novel being edited by none other than Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, but her suggestions are much more difficult than he ever imagined….

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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Length: 384 pages
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A man with massive writing skills, but no original ideas will stop at nothing to harvest them from others….

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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Length: 400 pages
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Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, both writers, both journalists, sharing the same dreams, competing with one and other even as they fell in love….

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I’m going to jump right in and state that as an avid reader I am a HUGE fan of quotation marks. This lovely little form of common punctuation has been in print since the sixteenth century and (in the unlikely event that any of you are from another planet) is defined by Webster’s as follows:
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