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Books by Alyssa Cole, Talia Hibbert and more offer heartwarming banter and plenty of heat.

A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school choice and voucher programs instead.

“It’s nice to work with faculty without that inbuilt prejudice against genre,” says the author of “I Was a Teenage Slasher.” “Or, I’m a little bit tall, so it’s tricky to look down your nose at me.”

The author discusses his new novel, “Holly,” his views on writing and life, and his own influence on younger generations. And we look at September books.

Some of their favorites didn’t make our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list — but these authors make a case for them anyway.

The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.

An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.

He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby.