The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

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Researchers at New York%27s The New School say findings preliminary Subjects read short excerpts and then were tested on reading emotional cues Reading literary fiction %22may change how%2C not just ...

Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, genre blending literary fiction, nonfiction and other genres. Smith uses Twitter to make connections, and believes being an ...

President Obama’s summer reading list is full of literary fiction. So is Richard Branson’s list of the books that influenced him the most. Both icons are exceptionally busy guys. Why do they make time ...

Earlier this month, social psychologists Emanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd—a professor at the New School for Social Research and a Ph.D. candidate there, respectively—published a paper titled ...

Your ability to "read" the thoughts and feelings of others could be affected by the kind of fiction you read. That's the conclusion of a study in the journal Science that gave tests of social ...

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Figuring out what to read next is a task that can cause a tremendous amount of anxiety: Should I finally read the book my mom bought me for my birthday? Or the novel my friend lent me? Or maybe that ...

The three-day London Book Fair concluded successfully at Olympia from March 10 to 12. The exhibition featuring works by author Xue Mo received strong support from the organizers. Publishers and ...

Big-name writers consider new and familiar terrain, and an interest in the power of the written word runs through the season’s notable fiction titles. After nine-year-old Swiv is suspended from school ...