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Last Week's Links, Publishing, Reading, slow reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / October 10, 2021 / Georgette Heyer, Tolstoy

How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself “I thought these middle-grade novels would help me navigate private school. Instead, they immersed me in bullying and materialism.” Anyone who doesn’t believe how much literature can influence people could benefit from reading Lena Wilson’s account of how she was influenced by “the […]

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Book Recommendations, Fiction, List, Literary History, On Novels and Novelists, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / June 26, 2015 / Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley, Arthur Conan Doyle, bibliotherapy, David Foster Wallace, detective novel, Donna Tartt, Dorothy L. Sayers, E.C. Bentley, Ed McBain, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleanor Catton, Emma Straub, Freeman Wills Crofts, G.D.H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton, George Eliot, Henry Wade, J.K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith), Jane Smiley, Ken Bruen, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsith, Ruth Rendell, Sophie Hannah, Tolstoy

How the Modern Detective Novel Was Born Here Martin Edwards, author of the new book The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story, gives a concise history of the development of the modern detective novel. Authors he discusses include the following: Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle,

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