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Novelists are taking note: tradwives star in a spate of recent books.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Novelists have always been entranced with the seedier side of show business, from Michael Tolkin’s classic “The Player” to Theodore Roszak’s paranoiac “Flicker” to Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s devilish “Silver Nitrate.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

The inaugural Best of Young British Novelists picks, published in 1983, now read like a who's who of literary greats.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

Novelists Joyce Carol Oates and John Cheever built bomb shelters into their fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Novelists are few and feeble, and dramatists are non-existent.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan