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Joe Halstead is a writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He currently serves as a writer at Marvel Games. He is the author of two novels. His work can also be found in Literary Hub, Paper Darts, [PANK], Word Riot, Sundog Lit, Five Quarterly, The Saint Ann's Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Slice Literary Magazine, Bird's Thumb, and others. ...more

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Katerina - James Frey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk

The Day the Sun Died - Yan Lianke

Jerusalem - Alan Moore

Tangerine - Christine Mangan

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The French student uprising, November 1967 - June 1968;: An analytical record,

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