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Guess who’s back? Flashman! D.J. Taylor can’t be more excited as he is in this lengthy essay about everyone’s favorite fictional rogue in the Independent on Sunday.

After 200 years, the identity of the man who created a stir in Georgian London with a guide to prostitution may finally be known — and it’s not who everyone thought it was.

The National Writers workshop is about to begin in the Hartford area, and the Courant interviews Katharine Weber, who will be a keynote speaker.

Mitch Cullin, the author of the fantabulous A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND, talks about the book to NPR in this radio interview.

Donna Leon’s BLOOD FROM A STONE has made its way to New Zealand, and this accompanying interview by John Freeman wonders how long she’ll keep writing the Brunetti novels.

Suzi Feay meets Matthew Gavron, whose mission it is to chronicle the East End area of London in his novels.

Joseph Finder is the latest to relate his backstory, talking about the conscious and unconscious goals of writing his new novel COMPANY MAN.

Speaking of Finder, his new novel is reviewed by the Boston Globe’s Clea Simon, who felt that the book could have had much richer characterization for a book that long.

Now the Canadians get in on the Saul Bellow tributes, as B.W. Powe writes one for the Globe and Mail.