Burned By Books
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A podcast for writers and readers who are obsessive about their books. Interviews with established and up-and-coming writers, and recommendations for the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama. Chris Holmes. Chris is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.
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Sarah Jean Grimm, "Hog Lagoon" (blush, 2023) and "Soft Focus" (Metatron, 2017)
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Lisa Lee, "American Han" (Algonquin Books, 2026)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Namwali Serpell, "On Morrison" (Hogarth, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Daniel Poppick, "The Copywriter" (Scribner, 2026)
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Alice Martin, "Westward Women" (St. Martins Press, 2026)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Joe Mungo Reed, "Terrestrial History" (Norton, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Ann Packer, "Some Bright Nowhere" (Harper Books, 2026)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Gabriel Tallent, "Crux" (Riverhead Books, 2025)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Jenny Mustard, "What a Time to Be Alive" (Pegasus Books, 2025)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Iida Turpeinen, "Beasts of the Sea" (Little, Brown, 2025)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Ben Ratliff, "Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening" (Graywolf Press, 2025)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Booksellers Best of 2025
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Mutual Interest" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Emily Adrian, "Seduction Theory" (Little, Brown, 2025)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri, "The Sisters" (FSG, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little, Brown, 2024)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Nell Stevens, "The Original" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Jesse Browner, "Sing to Me" (Little Brown, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Kate Folk, "Sky Daddy: A Novel" (Random House, 2025)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Emily Everett, "All That Life Can Afford" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Andrew Porter, "The Imagined Life: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Betsy Lerner, "Shred Sisters" (Grove Press, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Emma Pattee, "Tilt" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2025)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Joseph Earl Thomas, "God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Nora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Rufi Thorpe, "Margo's Got Money Troubles" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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"Kazuo Ishiguro is Not Writing World Literature"
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Andrew Lipstein, "Something Rotten" (FSG, 2025)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Maria Zoccola, "Helen of Troy, 1993" (Scribner, 2025)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Booksellers’ Best 2024
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Sam Sax, "Yr Dead" (McSweeney’s Books, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Kristopher Jansma, "Our Narrow Hiding Places" (Ecco, 2024), "Revisionaries" (Quirk Books, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Like Happiness" (Celadon Books, 2024)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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S J. Naudé, "Fathers and Fugitives" (Europa, 2024)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Rachel Kushner, "Creation Lake" (Scribner, 2024)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Mary Jones, "The Goodbye Process" (Zibby Books, 2024)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Kaliane Bradley, "The Ministry of Time" (Avid Reader Press, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Chelsea Bieker, "Madwoman" (Little, Brown, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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C. Michelle Lindley, "The Nude" (Atria Books, 2024)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Jessica Anthony, "The Most" (Little, Brown, 2024)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Cally Fiedorek, "Atta Boy" (U Iowa Press, 2024)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Megan Nolan, "Ordinary Human Failings" (Little, Brown, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Aysegül Savas, "The Anthropologists" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Iris Mwanza, "The Lions' Den" (Graydon House, 2024)
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Kimberly King Parsons, "We Were the Universe" (Knopf, 2024)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Jennine Capó Crucet, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
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May 31, 2024 |
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Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Booksellers' Best Books of 2023
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Laura Sims, "How Can I Help You" (Putnam, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Mina Seçkin, "The Four Humors" (Catapult, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Angie Kim, "Happiness Falls" (Hogarth Press, 2023)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Caroline O'Donoghue, "The Rachel Incident" (Knopf, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Hilary Leichter, "Terrace Story" (Ecco, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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John Fulton, "The Flounder: Stories" (Blackwater Press, 2023)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Katherine Heiny, "Games and Rituals: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Kate Doyle, "I Meant It Once" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Ruth Madievsky, "All-Night Pharmacy" (Catapult, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Eirinie Carson, "The Dead are Gods" (Melville House, 2023)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Rebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Rasheed Newson, "My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Julia Langbein, "American Mermaid" (Doubleday, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Kashana Cauley, "The Survivalists: A Novel" (Soft Skull Press, 2023)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Deepti Kapoor, "Age of Vice" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Sanaë Lemoine, "The Margot Affair" (Hogarth, 2021)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Matthew Salesses, "The Sense of Wonder" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Booksellers' Best of 2022
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Kayla Maiuri, "Mother In the Dark: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Kevin Wilson, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic" (Ecco Press, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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A. M. Homes, "The Unfolding" (Viking, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Julia May Jonas, "Vladimir: A Novel" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Mohsin Hamid, "The Last White Man" (Riverhead, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Rebecca van Laer, "How to Adjust to the Dark" (Long Day, 2022) & Shannon McLeod, "Whimsy" (Long Day, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Julia Glass, "Vigil Harbor" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Marcy Dermansky, "Hurricane Girl" (Knopf, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Caitlin Barasch, "A Novel Obsession" (Dutton Book, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Jessamine Chan, "The School for Good Mothers: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Andrew Lipstein, "Last Resort" (FSG, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year" (Vintage, 2014)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Percival Everett, "The Trees: A Novel" (Graywolf Press, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Cara Blue Adams, "You Never Get It Back" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Kalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Pola Oloixarac, "Mona" (Picador, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Karina Lickorish Quinn, "The Dust Never Settles" (One World, 2021)
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Alexandra Kleeman, "Something New Under the Sun" (Hogarth, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Clare Sestanovich, "Objects of Desire" (Knopf, 2021)
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Dana Spiotta, "Wayward" (Knopf, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Eleanor Henderson, "Everything I Have is Yours" (Flatiron, 2021)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Katie Kitamura, "Intimacies" (Riverhead, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Brian Hall, "The Stone Loves the World" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Hermione Hoby, "Virtue" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Rebecca Makkai, "The Great Believers" (Penguin Random House, 2018)
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Jack Wang, "We Two Alone" (HarperCollins, 2021)
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Rumaan Alam, "Leave the World Behind" (Ecco, 2021)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Miranda Popkey, "Topics of Conversation" (Knopf, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Gina Nutt, "Night Rooms" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Lauren Oyler, "Fake Accounts" (Catapult, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Ellie Eaton, "The Divines" (William Morrow, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Valzhyna Mort, "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" (Macmillan, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Fascism and its Afterlives: An Interview with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Carl Fischer
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Edan Lepucki, "Woman No. 17" (Penguin Random House, 2017)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Kevin Wilson, "Nothing to See Here" (HarperCollins, 2020)
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Bob Proehl, "The Nobody People" (Penguin Random House, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Alexandra Chang, "Days of Distraction" (HarperCollins, 2020)
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May 24, 2020 |
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The Last Bookstore, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY
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May 03, 2020 |
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Eleanor Henderson, "The Twelve-Mile Straight" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)
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May 28, 2019 |