Ron Charles

Fiction editorWashington, D.C.

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Lara Prescott won one of 25 official slots in this week’s live-streaming storytelling event.

  • Mar 11, 2014

An Appalachian town in Tennessee is about to be flooded by a new dam — then a little girl goes missing.

  • Mar 11, 2014

Annual award from the Arts Club of Washington will be presented April 26.

  • Mar 11, 2014

The list of finalists for the award was dominated by American writers

  • Mar 10, 2014

Some of the biggest names in the tech industry are behind this book-delivery app.

  • Mar 10, 2014

Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz to be the first author on March 10.

  • Mar 7, 2014

It’s hard to imagine a more delightful holiday than LitWorld’s “World Read Aloud Day.”

  • Mar 5, 2014

We weren’t sure our daughter could enjoy books till we discovered Jack Prelutsky’s poems.

  • Mar 5, 2014

“We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,” by Karen Joy Fowler, is among the books vying for the $15,000 prize.

  • Mar 5, 2014

A poor African man flees revolution at home to find a surprising love in the American Midwest.

  • Mar 4, 2014

Before they award the Criticism prize, the National Book Critics Circle judges must figure out what criticism is.

  • Mar 4, 2014

David Biespiel, chair of the poetry prize committee, reflects on a year of critical reading.

  • Mar 4, 2014

Her collection “Blue Yodel” will be published next year.

  • Mar 3, 2014

If a review can’t talk about the novel’s central theme or its plot, what’s left for the reviewer to do for 1,000 words?

  • Feb 28, 2014

(Video) In this wide-ranging interview, Phillips talks about what he writes, loves and believes.

  • Feb 28, 2014

How much can a book review say without sapping a novel of its suspense?

  • Feb 27, 2014

A tale of motherhood and race from a magical young writer.

  • Feb 25, 2014

Books by women now make up the majority of finalists and winners.

  • Feb 25, 2014

Nancy Hightower and Sarah MacLean debut this month in Book World.

  • Feb 25, 2014

Claire Dederer’s essay in the March issue of the Atlantic examines the conflicted candor of women’s memoirs.

  • Feb 24, 2014
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About Ron
Ron Charles is the fiction editor of The Washington Post. For a dozen years, he enjoyed teaching American literature and critical theory in the Midwest, but finally switched to journalism when he realized that if he graded one more paper, he'd go crazy. Before moving to DC, he edited the books section of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston. His wife is an English teacher and the cinematographer of their satirical series, "The Totally Hip Video Book Review."
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