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Dangling in the Tournefortia by Charles Bukowski Letters to Thomas & Adele Seltzer by D.H. Lawrence Three Easy Pieces by Wright Morris The Love Child by Eve Shelnutt Krazy Kat/The Unveiling and Other Stories from 1951-1968 by Fielding Dawson Hotel Cro-Magnon by Clayton Eshleman Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles The Wine of Youth by John Fante House Tours by Sherril Jaffe Towards a New American Poetics by Ekbert Faas The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates
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Lucia Berlin
“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”
― Lucia Berlin, Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998
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