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Literairyland Weekly: Aug. 22-28, 2023
This week's new books and writer birthdays
This Week’s New Books
Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
Romance
Science Fiction
Literary
Fantasy
Young Adult
Nonfiction
Social Science
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty by Nikhil Goyal (Amazon | Bookshop)
Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler (Amazon | Bookshop)
The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society by Mauro F. Guillén (Amazon | Bookshop)
Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell (Amazon | Bookshop)
Anthropology
Memoir
Biography
Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd (Amazon | Bookshop)
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed (Amazon | Bookshop)
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Amazon | Bookshop)
Self-Help
Food & Gastronomy
Entertainment
Poetry
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
Aug. 22
Ray Bradbury
James Kirkwood, Jr.
Dorothy Parker
Annie Proulx
Edward Rowe Snow
Aug. 23
Nazik Al-Malaika
Nelson DeMille
William Ernest Henley
Edgar Lee Masters
Aug. 24
Jorge Luis Borges
A. S. Byatt
Charles Causley
Paul Coelho
Malcolm Cowley
Gaylord DuBois
John Green
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Chris Offutt
Jean Rhys
Ali Smith
Howard Zinn
Aug. 25
Martin Amis
Thea Astley
Ian Falconer
Frederick Forsyth
Charles Ghigna
Bret Harte
Patrick F. McManus
Brian Moore
Álvaro Mutis
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Charles Wright
Aug. 26
Otto Binder
Julio Cortázar
Eleanor Dark
Nikky Finney
Zona Gale
Paula Hawkins
Allegra Huston
Christopher Isherwood
Aug. 27
Theodore Dreiser
C. S. Forester
William Least Heat-Moon
Michael Holroyd
Ira Levin
Norah Lofts
Jeanette Winterson
Aug. 28
John Betjeman
Robertson Davies
Rita Dove
Sheridan Le Fanu
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vonda N. McIntyre