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Ian MacAllen

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Average rating: 3.69 · 156 ratings · 38 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Red Sauce: How Italian Food...

3.68 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions
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Data of Discontent

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Rope by Tim Queeney
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istory through the lens of an ordinary object has become a common framework for nonfiction narratives over the two decades since Mark Kurlansky’s Salt popularized the genre. A wide range of these books now exists dealing with items like Eyeliner (Zah ...more
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The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill
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Big family dramas find fuel in big secrets. In Heather Aimee O’Neill’s debut, The Irish Goodbye, the big secrets of the past haunt the present, even as the suburban, Long Island Ryan family piece together their future. They are haunted by tragedy, Ca ...more
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Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn
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An author can live on through their writing well beyond their deaths. Publishers releasing new works posthumously has become something of a sport. Joan Didion’s journal, Notes to John was recently published, and Harper Lee, who’s Go Set a Watchman on ...more
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Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn
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A Taste of Upstate New York by Chuck D'Imperio
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The Sandersons Fail Manhattan by Scott  Johnston
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Cutting satire depends on humor and irony, but also empathy. When the political commentary lacks that final ingredient, as in Scott Johnston’s The Sandersons Fail Manhattan, we’re left with unrelatable, unmoving characters who exist in a world detach
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Among Friends by Hal Ebbott
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Friendship in adulthood changes. The daily routines sustaining childhood friendships no longer exist in adulthood, and the intimacies of college and young adulthood are replaced by relationships centered on spouses and family. Friends become distant. ...more
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Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh
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Oranges, and derivative products such as juice, are so ubiquitous in the modern supermarket, most consumers take the fruit for granted. Yet, it wasn’t so long ago that citrus was a rare luxury cherished as a gift and reserved for the upper classes. A ...more
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Open Up by Thomas    Morris
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Emotional intimacy is at stake in Thomas Morris’s latest story collection, Open Up. The stories feature characters struggling to find connection with others, and not often succeeding. These results are particularly depressing given that many of the r ...more
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Emotional intimacy is at stake in Thomas Morris’s latest story collection, Open Up. The stories feature characters struggling to find connection with others, and not often succeeding. These results are particularly depressing given that many of the r ...more
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