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| To observe that every story says something about the human condition would be accurate but might leave you with the impression they're grim or high-falutin', which they aren't. In fact most are offhandedly hilarious, like the series of office beefs i ...more | |
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| Mason is the slave who traveled on foot across much of the country behind her slaveholder’s wagon, ultimately from Georgia to California, a free state that wasn’t all that free. A judge, testing the limits of the law, freed her and others from their ...more | |
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| Interesting at times, opaque and frustrating at others, this is largely plotless, a young woman writing her story mostly as it relates to books. I liked the concept, and this has its moments of beauty and misery, but also of repetition and pretentiou ...more | |
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| An American news influencer (circa 1970) travels to his rural hometown of Pilot Knob for a break from the rat race, reconnects with old faces and meets a fetching young woman, but he also winds up in the Land of Make Believe. Here, characters from co ...more | |
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| As befits an anthology of poems about baseball, this is (wait for it) hit or miss, but the contributors' love of the game shines through. From Christopher Burske's ode to baseball cards: "each man smelled of bubble gum, pink, sweet, hard gum I'd chew ...more | |
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| A variant on the "last man" theme, this is about the last 40 women. It's told by the youngest, whose entire life was in an underground cage before a freak event set them all free in an evidently unpopulated world. Kafkaesque, yes, and few answers are ...more | |
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| Going in, I knew nothing of Reynolds, other than having seen his name on a lot of paperback spines. The clincher for buying this was the Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Well, Reynolds is a thorough surprise, his stories often spun from economics, sociology ...more | |
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| Overlook the title if you can. As Nick Hornby has observed, a better title might be "Stuff You Didn't Know About Jazz but Would Like to." This is a primer on a music that some of us rock fans are curious about but, because it's largely instrumental, ...more | |
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| The latest collection of his Believer columns, this takes us from 2017 to early 2022, telling us what Hornby has been reading (and buying) and what he liked. His roughly 50-50 split between fiction and nonfiction, nearly all of them recent as well, d ...more | |