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The Longest Chapter

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What I’m reading, including the 2025 Booker Prize longlist

August 20, 2025 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 3 Comments

I've been diving into the UK's Booker Prize longlisted novels, which have included 'Misinterpretation' and 'One Boat.' Here's why, plus there's a new thriller I flew through and nonfiction I've started about ghosts.

For Black History Month: poetry, basketball, and the Jim Crow years

February 15, 2024 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ Leave a comment

A new biography offers the first full-scale life of Ohio poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in half a century. Also, Hanif Abdurraqib has a new book coming out that is highly anticipated. And a book of stories posthumously published by an author who died in a motorcycle accident in 1966.

A selection of new books

November 7, 2018November 28, 2018 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

Here are a few titles I’ve gathered from my ongoing hunt for good books, including novels to anticipate in 2019, more Lucia Berlin stories, and the 2017 Prix Goncourt winner.

An open house with poets

June 6, 2017June 6, 2017 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

Why is poetry ignored by most Americans? And what if Jay Whitman read more poetry on the CBS drama "Madam Secretary"?

This thanks-giving holiday, thank you

November 25, 2009November 22, 2012 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 1 Comment

Some thanks, some poetry, some good wishes and more in this Thanksgiving message originally posted in 2009.

The Longest Chapter is written by Kassie Rose, book critic for Ohio NPR member station WOSU.

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