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Oct 13, 2016 • 30min

Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

Since memory is not only malleable but unreliable, which version of the truth will prevail?
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Oct 6, 2016 • 30min

Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn, award-winning Young Adult novelist Jacqueline Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years, tells the story of childhood friends as they grow into women. 
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Sep 29, 2016 • 30min

Marisa Silver: Little Nothing

An ugly young dwarf girl transforms first into a beauty, then into a tall woman, then into a wolf. 
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Sep 22, 2016 • 30min

Affinity Konar: Mischling

In Auschwitz, the infamous Dr. Mengele conducted horrifying physical and psychological experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Affinity Konar's Mischling (meaning mixed blood) is the story of twin sisters who find themselves imprisoned in Dr. Mengele's "zoo."
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Sep 8, 2016 • 30min

Adam Fitzgerald: George Washington

Adam Fitzgerald's poetry in George Washington: Poems comes across as playful while exploring the concept of Americana and what that means. 
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Sep 1, 2016 • 30min

Krys Lee: How I Became a North Korean

Krys Lee's first novel dramatizes boundaries and borders – not just political ones but those that complicate human relationships.  
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Aug 25, 2016 • 30min

Joe McGinniss Jr: Carousel Court

A married couple wind up in a wasteland of foreclosed houses and abandoned homes.
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Aug 18, 2016 • 30min

Tom McCarthy: Satin Island

Tom McCarthy's Satin Island features a protagonist who, as his company's corporate anthropologist, has been given the enormous task of compiling a report summing up the modern era.
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Aug 11, 2016 • 30min

Tom Lutz: Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World

In his travels to more than 100 countries – some dangerous, some surprisingly not – Tom Lutz finds that the more places he goes, the more the world leaves him a little bit lost.
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Aug 4, 2016 • 30min

Michelle Latiolais: She

Neither a novel nor a collection of stories, the "fictions" in She  weave together a composite view of Los Angeles.  

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