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Daddy’s Girl Sees Daddy’s Scars in The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

[Tinti] has cleverly illustrated the tender relationship between a father and his little girl, the respect a daughter has for her dad, and the lengths that both of them will travel to protect one another.

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Another day, another newly exposed Soviet nuclear fall-out that was worse than Chernobyl. What is life but a ghost street? Here is your Bavarian Pagan ritual for the day. At least…

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Spotlight: “Unofficial History” by Arwen Donahue

“Unofficial History” takes place on a 21st-century Kentucky farm, yet the landscape of the Holocaust is nearer than it might seem.

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Features & Reviews

This Week in Books: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…

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Falling into Fear

I knew that just as the country was reverting, so was I. Every face now seemed a potential enemy and these were feelings I had not felt in almost twenty years.

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Notable Los Angeles

Notable Los Angeles: 3/20–3/26

Monday 3/20: Marc Eliot in conversation with Fraser Heston discusses and signs Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 3/21: Melissa Scrivner Love discusses and signs Lola. 7…

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Han Yujoo, Wild Child of the South Korean Literary Scene

The Impossible Fairy Tale presents a dark and fraught conception of childhood.

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Slapped Together

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Seems like an unfortunately good time for a brief history of North Korean Misadventures. Mapping humanity’s topographic footprint. New York’s lost rooftop theaters (were also pretty neat). Important news: Manila…

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Writing Romance: The Rumpus Interview with Sonali Dev

Sonali Dev talks about her latest novel, A Change of Heart, the romance genre, writing non-white characters, and the parallels between writing and architectural design.

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Other

Notable Twin Cities: 3/19–3/25

Sunday 3/19: Start your week right at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church (right around the corner from Birchbark Books) with debut Anishinaabe novelists Marcie Rendon and Carter Meland. They’ll…

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Rumpus Original

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Hammock

Birth, death. We live in the middle. “What’s it like?” Lee asks. “Is it a door, and goodbye on either side?” Just like the stars, one day we all collapse, our mass and light and energy exploding into nothingness.

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