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A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

Published on : 31 January, 201329 January, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

A Land More Kind Than Home Wiley Cash William Morrow Paperbacks Release Date: January 22, 2013 ISBN 978-0-06-208814-7 —♦— Debut novels shouldn’t be this good. They just shouldn’t. In his first novel, Wiley Cash draws on his rural North Carolina upbringing to weave a story both touching and tragic. Using […]

Stephen King's New Novel 'Joyland' Revealed

Published on : 13 June, 2012 Published by : LitStack Editors

From The Huffington Post: Stephen King’s publishers have released details of his next book. Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, has said it will publish Joyland in June 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story […]

On this day, November 25, in 1926, science fiction writer Poul Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. He was incredibly prolific, penning over 100 books, many of them novels. He had to his credit seven Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, four Prometheus Awards, and a SFWA Grand Master appointment in 1997; he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. Interestingly, he was a founding member of SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), the leading living history re-enactment group (with close to 30,000 members and 60,000 participants worldwide). He died of cancer in 2001 at age 74.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

Stephen King's New Novel 'Joyland' Revealed

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