WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Department of English is partnering with West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County public libraries to bring Naomi Novik’s “Spinning Silver” to local readers.

In Spinning Silver (Del Rey, July), the story of “Rumpelstiltskin” is retold and transformed through a myriad of character voices. Spinning Silver started out as a short story you wrote for an ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Naomi Novik deserves a place in the highest echelons of fantasy fiction; that’s been obvious for most of her career. Her first major foray, the “Temeraire series,” cleverly wove ...