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Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller’s debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly, will be published by Harcourt this May. Follow her on twitter @propjen.

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A Picture Says It All

For authors and publishers one of the most fraught parts of publicizing book is what photo to put on the jacket. Novelist Jennifer Miller on what a photo says about the author.

Jennifer Miller

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3 Must Reads

New novels: a commune ripe for comedy and absurdity, a village pretends the Holocaust isn’t happening, and A.S. Byatt interprets the great Norse god myths.

Allen Barra

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Great Weekend Reads

This week: the great William Kennedy returns with a Cuban adventure, an inventive look at a man’s discovery of his father, a dystopian take on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, and coming of age with no where to go.

Susan Salter Reynolds

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