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Jane Ciabattari

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Covers:  authors, book reviews, arts and culture, new books, book publishing, books
Doesn't Cover: romance, children's books, extbooks
Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [@BBC_Culture @LitHub] Community [@bookcritics @SFGrotto @BayBookFest @Litcampwriters]

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Jane Ciabattari’s Biography

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Jane Ciabattari is a Literary Hub columnist and regular contributor for BBC.com. Her articles, book reviews, and cultural reporting have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, NPR.org, The Daily Beast, Salon.com, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, Ms., Poets & Writers Magazine, The East Hampton Star, Kirkus Reviews, among others.

She served as president of the National …

Jane Ciabattari’s Journalist Portfolio

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The 21st Century's 12 greatest novels

The 21st Century's 12 greatest novels

Which works of fiction since 2000 will stand the test of time? BBC Culture polled several dozen critics to se…

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'Thirteen Ways' Takes A Powerful, Layered Look At Life

'Thirteen Ways' Takes A Powerful, Layered Look At Life

Colum McCann's first story collection since his novel Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award ma…

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'Mothers' Tells Stories Too Often Silenced

'Mothers' Tells Stories Too Often Silenced

Bonnie Jo Campbell burst upon the literary landscape in 2009 with a collection called American Salvage that w…

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Five Books Making News This Week: Prizes, Presidents, and Pond Philosophers

Five Books Making News This Week: Prizes, Presidents, and Pond Philosophers

Another banner week for literary culture passes. Marlon James celebrates his Man Booker award by writing abou…

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Five Books Making News This Week

Five Books Making News This Week

The sultry dog days of 2015 have been marked by a surprising and distinct quickening of attention in the lite…

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The 11 greatest children's books

The 11 greatest children's books

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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Articles

Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Last Human Bear Greg Sarris’s first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first novels by Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine), Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues), Mona Susan Power (The Grass Dancer) and David Treuer (Little).
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Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Contrapposto Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, transmits a deep understanding of the impulse to make art—to study, practice, commit to making art on a regular basis, to exhibit and sell your work (or your skills), collaborate with others in the art world, to make its mysteries and practicalities your life. Cricket and Olympia first meet in grade school in a northwest Indiana prairie town.
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Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Mercy Hill Hannah Thurman’s Mercy Hill, is an emotionally nuanced coming-of-age story set within the confines of an aging mental institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, told from the point of view of the youngest of four gifted daughters of the hospital’s head psychiatrist, a woman who has championed the rights of those with mental problems since the death of her own mother by apparent suicide.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Weekly columnist for Pulitzer award winning small-town newspaper, The Emporia Gazette.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

iPhone.
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