fiction
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From her work on that groundbreaking assemblage emerged the idea for “Beloved,” which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
New reads abound for your vacation tote throughout the weeks of July, with fiction picks featuring a Carnival cruise casualty, a highly entertaining jewel heist at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a Soviet-era madcap adventure.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
A quarter-century before the hit film, former bond salesman and budding author Michael Lewis wrote a provocative piece of speculative fiction: “How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Carl Erik Rinsch was accused of using Netflix funds intended to complete a science fiction series to buy cars, cryptocurrency and other luxuries for himself.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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