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The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna
by Dagoberto Gilb“His language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is also able to illuminate life’s transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their power and evanescence.” –The Washington Post…
Had a Good Time
by Robert Olen Butler“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He favors strong plots and strong twists….
Eden
by Olympia Vernon“Daring [and] explosively supernatural. . . . [Eden is] a startling reminder of how forceful Southern magic can be.” –The New York Times Book Review…
The Beholder’s Eye
by Walt Harrington“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…
Acqua Alta
by Donna Leon“Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew.” —Sunday Times (London)…
Al-Jazeera
by Hugh Miles“A detailed, absorbing look at the organization, the world it covers and the international media. . . . In describing Al Jazeera’s rise, Miles illuminates the shaky balance the channel…
Grove at Home: March 28-April 3
…in our dreams / Never had a chance to grow / Never had a chance to grow” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlRsjHTkbs Read an excerpt from Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water In just…
Stern
by Bruce Jay Friedman“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…
Pack of Cards
by Penelope Lively“One of Britain’s most imaginative and important contemporary writers.” –Library Journal…
In the City of Shy Hunters
by Tom SpanbauerSpanbauer has inserted his character, the Shy Hunter, into the mythology of the real Lower East Side of Manhattan. Surely many will want to follow his steps after reading In…
