Jessica Francis Kane
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Novels (Rules for Visiting, The Report). Story collections (This Close, Bending Heaven). New novel, FONSECA, about Penelope Fitzgerald, out now from Penguin Press!
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FONSECA is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 💫

#booksky #penelopefitzgerald #novel #historicalfiction #mexico
5 New Books We Love This Week
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Made a pilgrimage to @thelynxbooks.bsky.social to be in conversation with @legroff.bsky.social about Fonseca and it was all amazing! She’s a #penelopefitzgerald fan!
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Made a pilgrimage to @thelynxbooks.bsky.social to be in conversation with @legroff.bsky.social about Fonseca and it was all amazing! She’s a #penelopefitzgerald fan!
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I am very sorry to say I recently learned they are called “spredges”
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Dawn Powell will be published in the UK for the first time in decades starting next June, when Pushkin Press (which acquired her publisher Steerforth Press) publishes her 1942 novel A Time to be Born.
Cover of A Time to Be Born Catalogue info for the book. 

A TIME TO BE BORN
DAWN POWELL
CLASSICS
A long-overdue revival of Dawn Powell with this dazzling tale of ambition, betrayal and romantic chaos set amid the upper reaches of Manhattan's media elite

Amanda Keeler has clawed her way out of Ohio into the affections of Julien Evans, New York's newspaper magnate. To those back home, she has it all. But behind the glittering façade, Amanda is restless. When a school friend, Vicky, arrives in the city, Amanda finds the perfect cover for secret trysts with old flame Ken.

But desire doesn't follow plans. Vicky falls for Ken, and a volatile love triangle ignites.

DAWN POWELL (1896-1965) was a prolific American novelist, known for her sharp wit and named by Ernest Hemingway as his favourite writer.

A TIME TO BE BORN
ISBN: 9781805333265
FORMAT: PAPERBACK
PRICE: £10.99
PUBLICATION: JUNE
EXTENT: 344
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Favorite calendar event ever.
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That evening, Monday, October 13, I will be reading and talking with @legroff.bsky.social about #penelopefotzgerald at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social!
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6pm! Can’t wait to see this wonderful store.
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That evening, Monday, October 13, I will be reading and talking with @legroff.bsky.social about #penelopefotzgerald at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social!
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Favorite calendar event ever.
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My #HistoricalFiction roundup for @thestar.com
includes new novels by Hunter, @jfkane.bsky.social, McQuaig & Orner. #HistFic

Find your next fab read among them.

In print today. Online TK. #writing #novels #books
Pink gladioli in a tall crystal vase stand beside four novels, titles showing: Days of Light, Fonseca, The Road to Goderich and The Gossip Columnist's Daughter Reviews of Days of Light, Fonseca, The Gossip Columnist's Daughter and The Road to Goderich in print edition of Toronto Star Sat Oct 11, 2025
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I'm wondering if anyone pointed out to Trump that if you really want the Nobel Peace Prize, you probably shouldn't rename your Department of Defense the Department of WAR.
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I'm wondering if anyone pointed out to Trump that if you really want the Nobel Peace Prize, you probably shouldn't rename your Department of Defense the Department of WAR.
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Join us at the Coffee House Club, in residence at Salmagundi Club, in New York on Nov. 12 for a celebration of @margarethutton.bsky.social’s debut novel, If You Leave ( @regalhouse.bsky.social), with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, @jfkane.bsky.social, and Julian Tepper: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-mar...
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Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.
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For readers of FONSECA: this is the house Mirando is based on.

#penelopefitzgerald #historicalfiction #mexico #booksky
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For readers of FONSECA: this is the house Mirando is based on.

#penelopefitzgerald #historicalfiction #mexico #booksky
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A great night at the new Mermaid Books in Milford, CT. FONSECA was the Lit Fic Book Club’s inaugural selection!