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RHLAOB's Top 12 Books of 2019

Six of seven finalists for NBCC's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book are by women

Holiday Book Recommendations! Something for everyone on your shopping list

Naming the Dragon: Writing Your Truth When It Involves Real People

Monday Mini: A PLACE FOR US by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Nicole Zelniker on what happens after you publish your first book

How 30 years as a therapist led to my novel about Alzheimer’s

Thrity Umrigar: My Inviolate Soul

Can a man read only literary fiction by women? Yes!

Debut novelist Elayne Klasson on writing as passion

Lisa A. Sturm: Creating characters that readers will love

Learning the hard way: How I became a published novelist

Two recent memoirs explore liberation through spiritual journey and the arts

Elise Blackwell on Gathering: Writing as an Approach to Life

Mary Fleming: On representing the real Paris in THE ART OF REGRET

Seven of 10 books on National Book Award fiction longlist are by women

10 female Australian writers you need to read

A Conversation with Katherine Sherbrooke: midlife challenges, cancer, and Ecuador's ayahuasca ceremonies in FILL THE SKY

Marlena Baraf explores her complex identity in her new memoir of growing up in Panama, immigrating to the U.S.

WE WILL TELL YOU OTHERWISE is a quirky, compelling debut collection

FAREWELL, MY ORANGE offers an intimate and memorable view of the immigrant experience

Authors weigh in on their favorite female writers

Time to migrate to Instagram, where all the book action is!

Who's your favorite female author? RHLAOB wants to hear from YOU.

2019 Booker Prize nominees announced; eight of 13 are women

Interest in Italian poet Emilia Bassano as author of Shakespeare's works reaches critical mass

The bookstore that champions works by female writers

Abbigail Rosewood: Writing helped me weave together my different identities

UNBLINKING takes a hard but sympathetic look at life in Detroit

Why I Write: An Expat’s Exploration of Setting and Family

In MOXIE, a NYC model with a bad attitude attempts to rebuild her life after a disfiguring attack

KINGDOM OF WOMEN a rewarding speculative novel about patriarchy, faith and feminism

Gwendolyn Brooks is My Literary Godmother

Margaret Dilloway on Disobedient and Difficult Female Characters

RHLAOB featured on Jane Friedman's blog for writers

Making art: How painting helped author Jodi Paloni find a path from poetry to prose

Meet three writers who express a multifaceted creativity through art

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner and Women's Prize for Fiction finalists announced

Barbara Linn Probst: Why Do We Write?

Mary Morris talks about GATEWAY TO THE MOON, the story of Jews fleeing the Inquisition for the New World

Natalia Sylvester on Cristina Garcia and the book that changed her life

Kali Fajardo-Anstine discusses her debut collection, SABRINA & CORINA

One Book, One New York nominates five novels by women

On Buddhism, Diaspora, and Family Pilgrimage

The Writer’s Family Tree: A former student's tribute to Joyce Carol Oates

Saturday Short: BELLFLOWER's novel-in-moments offers a unique reading experience

Lisa Lenzo: Words and Wild Grapes

Groff's FLORIDA wins Story Prize; PEN America awards announced; PEN/Faulkner fiction finalists announced

Ellen Korman Mains: On Permeable Mysteries in Memoir and Life

Sunday Short: The Hundred Wells of Salaga explores two intersecting lives in pre-colonial Ghana

Pt. 2 in a series: Three recent books that deserve your attention

Stephanie Gangi on the Crack of the WIP

L.A. Times Book Awards finalists announced

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To sleep, perchance to ... write?

Three terrific books you might have overlooked

Jodi Paloni on the transformative capacity of books

Terese Svoboda: The Tiny, Tiny Library Looms Large

Angie Kim and Lisa K. Gornick in conversation: On structural options, sources of inspiration, and understanding their characters

Barbara Stark-Nemon: Late-blooming "encore career" writers have valuable stories and experiences to share

The Hundred-Year House offers absorbing hybrid of family saga, literary mystery, examination of creative life

NBCC and PEN America announce 2018 literary awards finalists

8 Ways to Revive Your Novel Manuscript

Male Verbal Privilege: “Men Don’t Say or Do That!”

Gayle Brandeis: When Fiction Comes True