Rob Franklin
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August 2023
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Great Black Hope
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2025
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11 editions
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"4⭐️ The writing in this book is phenomenal! The sights, sounds, smells of NYC are written so well it brings you right into the nightlife!
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"And what costume shall the poor girl wear / To all tomorrow's parties?
Astounding. This book has gotten a big push, but it's well deserved- the writing is sumptuous, lived-in, and pulsing with observational bon mots. Rob Franklin is a talented chronic" Read more of this review » |
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“And because it was funny, Smith laughed as well. A gut-clench, sight-blur of laughter, full as a palm's clutch of fireflies. They swam out to the night. Into the warmth they knew was a gift that would someday eclipse them.”
― Great Black Hope
― Great Black Hope
“And if nothing lasts forever, why should intimacy shared for the duration of a pop song’s chorus be any less extraordinary?”
― Great Black Hope
― Great Black Hope
“If you paused at the corner by the park and closed your eyes, you could listen as the honking traffic and heaving bodies swished and spun with laundromat rhythms and imagine that, when summer ended, all of this would again make sense—how you lived here, indeed, and why.”
― Great Black Hope
― Great Black Hope
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