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Book Cover for: Happy Stories, Mostly, Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu
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“This feeling of being seen, of being properly close-read, helped me keep going.” Norman Erikson Pasaribu answers 7 questions, including what would be on a playlist for their new collection, Happy Stories, Mostly. @FeministPress https://t.co/1jfWdV4R3p

Paperback, 2023

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Prize for the Fire

Rilla Askew
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Prize for the Fire “shows the risks of a firmly confessed faith in a time of political and religious change.” W. M. Hagen reviews Rilla Askew’s new historical novel. https://t.co/3PjzGL6lGs

Hardcover, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Incendiaries

R. O. Kwon
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“When people are engaged in sex or thinking about or wanting sex, they’re vulnerable. Literature loves vulnerability.” – The Incendiaries author R. O. Kwon in conversation with Emily Doyle in our January issue @rokwon @e_m_doyle https://t.co/lsuAFuPppS

Paperback, 2019

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Rombo

Esther Kinsky
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“Rombo is meditative, cinematic, and astounding.” Kayla Esther Ciardi reviews Kinsky’s latest novel, in which a “wayfaring narrator becomes a chorus of people affected by two natural disasters.” @FitzcarraldoEds https://t.co/QO79jHlvbL

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton
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Graziano Krätli reviews Kate Beaton’s “very personal and profoundly moving memoir” where “the ducks of the title represent a double tribute.” @DandQ https://t.co/BHmGhn0zhD

Hardcover, 2022

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Book Cover for: Bonsai, Alejandro Zambra

Bonsai

Alejandro Zambra
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“I didn’t want to write a novel, but rather the summary of a novel. A bonsai of a novel.” Alejandro Zambra speaks with Anderson Tepper in this new interview. https://t.co/r6afwCzqCh

Paperback, 2022

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High Desert

André Naffis-Sahely
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“A brief review cannot do justice to High Desert—either its seriousness and depth or its understated artistry.” Tim Hunt reviews this “not simply admirably accomplished but important” collection of poems by André Naffis-Sahely. @BloodaxeBooks https://t.co/m3zCsmxWBV

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Calling for a Blanket Dance, Oscar Hokeah

Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah
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“These moments feel so fluid and intimate that when we take in these stories, we hear the voices of our own family telling stories. It feels like home.” Kyrié Eleison Owen reviews Oscar Hokeah’s Calling for a Blanket Dance. https://t.co/g5WPkhjLj2

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez
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Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming, on gentrification in literature, her favorite Brooklyn spots, and what’s on her playlist—read online or in print in the November issue! @XochitltheG https://t.co/2qyHyK1EhA

Paperback, 2023

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The Enigma of Room 622

Joël Dicker
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“Swiss writer Joël Dicker’s novel The Enigma of Room 622 raises the ghosts of Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and all their cohort to parody the popular elements of the ‘Golden Age’ mystery.” – J. Madison Davis https://t.co/rLmk7yPYxq

Paperback, 2023

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