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Journalist-author Karl Taro Greenfeld talks about the difference between fiction and non-fiction for your story.
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Author Ridley Pearson is in town for the Hong Kong Book Fair and he drops by to talk about the distinction between fiction and fantasy.
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Phil Whelan on Morning Brew meets best-selling Hong Kong author, Matthew Harrson. His published fiction includes the romantic short story collection, "Queen’s Road Central and Other Stories", the novel "Jessica's Choice" and brand new humorous novel "Benjamin Bunce".
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Robin Hemley spoke to Hugh Chiverton about the genesis of his book 'Do-over'.
Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER! He has published eight books of fiction and non-fiction, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many other literary magazines and anthologies....
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Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. Amid the famine in North Korea, the financial crisis of South Korea, and the cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls of...
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and...
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Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka. His first book, Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories reflecting the ethnic and political tensions that have threatened Sri Lanka since independence in 1948, was published in 1992. Reef (1994), his first novel, won a Yorkshire Post Book Award (Best First Work) and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize for...
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The Belgrade-born writer, Tea Obreht, has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel "The Tiger's Wife".
At 25, she is the youngest author ever to win the prestigious prize, which is open to any novel by a woman published in English.
The book tells the story of a young doctor in the aftermath of the civil wars that led to the break up of...
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In an essay entitled 'The Cult of Authenticity', Vikram Chandra responded ten years ago to criticism that his work was not truly 'Indian'. Hugh Chiverton asked him if he still faced the same questions.
Vikram Chandra's first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), was written over several years whilst he obtained an MA at John Hopkins University and an MFA at...
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Jill Dawson is a British writer who has authored seven novels and edited six anthologies of poetry and short stories. Critics call her "one of Britain's most talented contemporary writers." With Jill, Jose "Butch" Dalisay is a leading Filipino writer who has authored or edited over 20 books of fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry and critical work. He has...
