Claude Peck
Former Senior Metro Editor
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Geraldine Brooks remembers her husband (and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner) in ‘Memorial Days’
Nonfiction: A celebrated novelist confronts the sudden loss of her spouse.
January 27, 2025
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Comic novel shows how ‘There’s a body in my bed’ turns into a ticket for success
Fiction: In a YA writer’s debut novel for adults, so much depends on a grim morning after.
November 25, 2024
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Kevin Barry will blow you away with Montana-set ‘The Heart in Winter’
FICTION: The Irish writer’s first novel set in America is a lyric heartbreaker.
July 3, 2024
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You’ll be a fan of the hero of ‘Blessings,’ a young gay Nigerian who’s up against a lot
FICTION: The story of his coming of age makes for a memorable debut by a Nigerian writer.
June 20, 2024
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When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in ‘The Alternatives’
FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
April 10, 2024
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In novel, ‘The American Daughters’ are Black women, fighting to end slavery
FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
February 20, 2024
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Book reveals where art history happened, with 7 queer artists as guides
NONFICTION: Traveling through time and space to capture “unrecorded history” in “Nothing Ever Just Disappears.”
January 25, 2024
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'Hilarious' and 'wrenching' novel 'Last Acts' depicts a hapless father and son
FICTION: John Updike's Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom meets Voltaire's optimistic Candide and Walter White of "Breaking Bad" in the hero of a deliriously dark debut.
January 18, 2024
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When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in ‘The Alternatives’
FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
April 10, 2024
Books
In novel, ‘The American Daughters’ are Black women, fighting to end slavery
FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
February 20, 2024
Books
Book reveals where art history happened, with 7 queer artists as guides
NONFICTION: Traveling through time and space to capture “unrecorded history” in “Nothing Ever Just Disappears.”
January 25, 2024
Books
'Hilarious' and 'wrenching' novel 'Last Acts' depicts a hapless father and son
FICTION: John Updike's Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom meets Voltaire's optimistic Candide and Walter White of "Breaking Bad" in the hero of a deliriously dark debut.
January 18, 2024