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11 hours ago · The Book of Love, by Kelly Link. Link, a Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories, pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. Here, she follows three teenagers who return from ...
5 days ago · 3. Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru. “…a lively, ever-intensifying story as Jay weaves in discussions of race, immigration, work, and what it means to earn a living. It’s a darkly ironic tale of two bubbles—an art world divorced from economic reality and a Covid era that segregated us from society.
5 days ago · Kingsolver’s powerful novel, published in 2022, is a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in contemporary Appalachia. The story gallops through issues including childhood poverty, opioid addiction and rural dispossession even as its larger focus remains squarely on the question of how an artist’s consciousness ...
2 days ago · Perhaps you’ll enjoy a tasty duck dinner while you consider these things. Seattle: On Wednesday June 5th, 2024, Ig Nobel ceremony co-producer David Kessler will hold an informal Dead Duck Day celebration in Seattle. David has been doing this privately for several years now with a few friends, but this year he is opening the invitation to ...
3 days ago · Check the small stuff. Before turning to Chapter 1, I glance at a book’s cover art, check out the author’s dust jacket biography and photo, and read through the back page endorsements. Unlike ...
1 day ago · The six most surprising things that happened -2-. Keith Davidson, a Los Angeles attorney who specialized in handling potentially embarrassing celebrity stories, discussed the lengthy negotiating process between him, Cohen and the National Enquirer to get Daniels's and McDougal's stories put under wraps. He said the contracts had included $1 ...
3 days ago · Stephen Kessler’s recent column (May 11) lambasting the ex-president’s personal flaws drips heavily with disrespect and insults; it is also delusional. Where is reality here, seeing the world ...
