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… “I know he’s in there.” This is the River Side Apartment Complex, and Sammy is a deputy with the civil division of … at the bottom of a paper cup. “I got to warn you, though. I die sometimes. I been dying all day.” “Excuse me?” He taps … fifty beautiful women who stand on stage holding silver briefcases full of money. Brent is yelling when he first hears …

… and similar to our own. At its core, historical fiction appeals to our nostalgic sensibilities. If we are drawn to an … what the English critic Christopher Booker calls an “Overcoming the Monster” plot, where the hero sets out to defeat … Turning from the detective plots of her popular Jackson Brodie novels, she has immersed her last three books in the …

… dreamy verdure, half-consciousness, half-willingness to die. The abated body’s still flexible,     so I was evolving …

… of more than 50 years ago. Dorothy’s fame rests on her Journals of daily life in the Lake District and the inspiration she gave her brother William as a companion, friend, and amanuensis. The Wordsworths were a … from home and walk all the way and back. Until Lowther died in 1802 and his heirs paid off his debts, they were too …

… seems to be that Osbert and Edith were two of the most accomplished literary hustlers of all time and if the English … a book about a couple of enterprising self-publicists who also happened to write and—surprise, surprise—sometimes … avid for details about the lives of the once great. This audience, grown brutal on sweat, tears, and intimacies, is …