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Janice Obuchowski Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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THE WOODS | Winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award | Rep'd by Kiele Raymond.

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Book Cover for: Ghost Story, Peter Straub

Ghost Story

Peter Straub
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@Urrealism Thank you! I'm going to order Peter Straub's Ghost Story and start reading him this week.

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Skin and Its Girl

Sarah Cypher
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

Look at this radiant cover! Sarah Cypher's THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL, will be out in April 2023, from Ballantine! https://t.co/zxfLiTEKDv

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Love

Anton Chekhov
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

Chekhov, Anton: Talent, but not genius. Love him dearly, but cannot rationalize that feeling. https://t.co/9JdYzhNqHC

Paperback, 2014

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories

Peter Orner
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

"Maybe it's just a true love story, and like all such stories it will always mean less to the person listening (more or less listening) than it does to the teller. How could it not?" --from "Ineffectual Tribute to Len" by Peter Orner

Paperback, 2020

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Runaway, Alice Munro

Runaway

Alice Munro
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@keith_leonard_ Alice Munro has both Runaway and Dear Life out in the 2000s (cheating a smidge to call her contemporary, but she's so amazing); Lauren Groff's Florida; Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; Kirstin Valdez Quade's Night at the Fiesta; George Saunder's Tenth of December.

Paperback, 2005

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@MoMarcoPolo @shortstories Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat; We the Animals by Justin Torres; The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

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Florida

Lauren Groff
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@keith_leonard_ Alice Munro has both Runaway and Dear Life out in the 2000s (cheating a smidge to call her contemporary, but she's so amazing); Lauren Groff's Florida; Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; Kirstin Valdez Quade's Night at the Fiesta; George Saunder's Tenth of December.

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner

William Maxwell
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@DeVonciFig So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. I think a lot about Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, too.

Paperback, 1996

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

@MoMarcoPolo @shortstories Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat; We the Animals by Justin Torres; The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

Paperback, 1992

$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua, Robert Coover

Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua

Robert Coover
Janice ObuchowskiJanice Obuchowski

Recently, @_conjunctions had an online reading, and Karen Russell and Robert Coover read. I thought it was so exciting--wonderful that spaces that champion literature exist. Now, especially, I think three cheers for Conjunctions getting to continue its stellar work! https://t.co/6ZN1722A3A

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