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Friday Frontliner host Jenna Blum welcomes Jess Walter to discuss his latest novel, "So Far Gone." This book is "a gleeful, kooky and tender homage to Charles Portis's 'True Grit' with echoes of Tom Robbins and yes, Elinor Lipman too," says L.A. Times Books. 4 PM ET FRI

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"So Far Gone" by Jess Walter is "propulsive ... Walter offers an honest and even touching look at the [characters'] need for purpose while finding deadpan humor in their failings ... This captivates," says Publishers Weekly. Jess is our Friday Frontliner. 4 PM ET TODAY

"So Far Gone" by Jess Walter is "both prescient and timely yet with a backward glance ... a tremendous achievement ... with an urgency that may make it one of the strongest realist but dystopian novels of the present era," says Library Journal. Friday Frontliner. 4 PM ET TODAY

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Blaze host Ellen Comisar 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 spotted "Crown" by Evanthia Bromiley on the shelves of Harvard Book Store. This Grove Atlantic novel has a June 17 pub date & Evanthia will be in the Debut Spotlight at 2 PM Thursday June 19 ... because that's what Blaze hosts do!!

"So Far Gone" by Jess Walter features "a tumultuous road trip through a tumultuous America," says The Washington Post. Jess is our Friday Frontliner with host Jenna Blum. 4 PM ET TODAY

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Special Interview host #TrishaBlanchet welcomes Eliza Knight 👩‍💻📚🐾 to discuss her most recent novel, "Confessions of a Grammar Queen." This book is "a light and lovely tale of women supporting women, with ... a whole lot of big words," says ALA_Booklist. 2 PM ET TUES

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"Confessions of a Grammar Queen" by Eliza Knight 👩‍💻📚🐾 features a "copy editor at a 1960s New York publishing house who summons the courage to fight for what she deserves in a ... male-dominated workplace," says Kristin Harmel ("The Paris Daughter"). Special Interview. 2 PM ET TODAY

"Conessions of a Grammar Queen" by Eliza Knight 👩‍💻📚🐾 is "the ultimate women-supporting-other-women book ... If you’ve ever silently (or not silently) corrected someone’s grammar, this book is for you," says Madeline Martin 👩🏻‍💻 ("The Booklover's Library"). Special Interview. 2 PM ET TODAY

At the top of the hour, Eliza Knight 👩‍💻📚🐾 joins Special Interview host #TrishaBlanchet to discuss her latest novel, "Confessions of a Grammar Queen." Watch on Facebook or our YouTube channel ➡️ bit.ly/AMBYT. Leave any questions for Eliza right in the YT chat!