Janet Fitch's Blog - Posts Tagged "literary-map-of-america"

The award winning, ever-thoughtful, doggedly optimistic, novelist of grass roots America Susan Straight (author of eight novels including this year's Mecca, plus a memoir, In the Country of Women), has just released a Literary Map of America, real America, in 1000 works of fiction. As a reader, I'm screaming with delight to see regions of the nation through her eyes. The diverse collection of novels and story collections is eye popping--some of the classics, but many many books that have not yet exited their own region to find readership in the nation as a whole. I know what I'll be doing this morning!

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