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Lately, Esquire has been publishing more original fiction and book-related content. Here's how and why that is happening.

Musings from Pequot Lakes resident Craig Nagel about the joy of hunkering down with a good book during winter

“My job is never to tell you want to think but to draw you into a conversation and really invite you into a world where you have maybe never walked before and when you have finished and put that life down and come back into your own, you are different, you have felt something for the theoretical other… for me that is a political act.”

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In “Demon Copperhead,” opioids destroy the mother of the boy nicknamed Demon, then ensnare him, too. To understand an addict’s experience, Kingsolver contacted the Virginia physician who sounded an early alarm about the dangers of OxyContin and now treats recovering addicts. He connected her with his patients, whose stories find their way into Demon’s.

The author will discuss her new work, "Demon Copperhead," at a Tempe bookstore Friday. The former Arizonan is known for weaving science into fiction.

The "Poisonwood Bible" author on her career and her new novel, "Demon Copperhead," which reboots "David Copperfield" in opioid-ravaged Appalachia.

Oprah Winfrey’s newest book club choice is Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead,” a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield." In a statement Tuesday, also the release date for “Demon Copperhead,”

Winfrey called Kingsolver’s 560-page novel “the kind of epic you want to read this fall.”