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Her writing is quiet, perhaps even naive. But Schloss is enamored by the minutiae of her subjects, and the exactness and delicacy of her details ripple out like water. Trying to focus on one aspect of the book would be to let the entire thing go.
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Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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“I enjoy and do all of that research, and it must make the translation better.”
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This food as love repairs, protects, and grows the heart and soul.
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“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”
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Elizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
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Our eyes are bleary, but we are laughing, the kind of laugh that comes before tears.
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I set off for Rome with my fiddle and a backpack, planning to busk as long as the tourists could stand it.
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I’d been treated for cancer, left my husband, patched things up, and just as life was veering back towards Normalville, it took a headlong swerve.
...moreReviewing W. Joseph Campbell’s 1995: The Year the Future Began, Louis Menand explores, among other things, the different conceptions and strategies for recording history.
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Ralph Sassone’s first novel explores the devastating emotional craters of first love, and the bumpy, baffling relations between the generations.
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