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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The narrator is consumed by the internet and speaking in disconnected tweet-like pronouncements. Her life […]
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
In this story, set in 1922, Mrs. Lottie Wilkins and Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot become disenchanted […]
The Orchid Thief: a true story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean begins a journalistic investigation of an orchid thief, John Laroche. She ends up […]
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
I have read almost everything Lily King has written. She is a fabulously gifted writer, […]
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
The setting is the 1970s in suburban Chicago in New Prospect Township, and Crossroads delves […]
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
In 1983, Toni Morrison explained in an interview with Tom LeClair that a tar baby […]
Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow
I knew of Charles Blow from his columns in the New York Times. His writing […]
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a most unusual family story which takes sibling […]