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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By Candice Millard
Feb 5
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Reading "August Blue" by Deborah Levy
I felt like I were reading poetry as much as magical prose, the way Levy uses imagines and metaphors that dance and sing in the moment and then recur in…
Jan 21
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Review of "The Fury" by Alex Michaelides
“As a writer, I am habitually prone to fleeing reality.
Jan 9
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On Jerzy Kosiński's "The Painted Bird"
Talk about hard to read.
Dec 12, 2025
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Review of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
This book is hard to read, as it tells the story of two young boys who are sent to a terrifying reform school that is based on a real school that…
Oct 1, 2025
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Review of The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
This is a gorgeously-written classic, published first in 1951, that begins in media res: “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that…
Sep 26, 2025
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White Nights in Split Town City: A Review
book by Annie DeWitt
Sep 12, 2025
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Review of Erasure, by Percival Everett
A sharp satire on writing and publishing and what it means to be black in America.
Aug 29, 2025
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