Reading guides
The Rust Belt in fiction: novels of Ohio's industrial towns
A guided shelf of eleven novels and story cycles set in Ohio's mill towns and the wider Rust Belt, from Winesburg to Detroit, with questions for book groups.
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First novels and prizes
Debut fiction prizes explained: the awards that read first novels
A plain guide to the prizes that look at first novels and young fiction writers: who runs each one, who is eligible, and why publishers usually do the entering.
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