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What's on Your Mind?
Three works of literary nonfiction are in the spotlight this week, along with a prize-winning Scandinavian writer who has been gaining a deserved...
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Fall's Harvest
This week we offer an epic novel of the American South, stories that illuminate the absurdity of contemporary life, a glimpse into the making...
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Creature Discomforts
Often, getting out of your comfort zone enhances the pleasures of reading. This week two oversized creatures are featured, as well as (possibly)...
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Whale of a Tale
A ‘whale of a story’ means a great amount of a good thing and this week we have five novels that fit the description, including two featuring whales
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Something to Talk About
This week we are pleased to highlight a rousing jazz-infused debut novel which we are launching at The Center and a pitch-perfect memoir from...
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Difficult People
Difficult people make for interesting reading. Characters who are mischievous, unstable, irrational, those who lack self-control and then find...
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Awakenings
Novels, short stories, stories that interlink to become a novel, and poetry: these books explore their characters’ psychological and sexual...
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Top That
Four of this week’s writers are at the peak of their powers. Shimmering stories full of pain and loss and introspection; fat cat Republicans...
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Bodies in Motion
The writers below share a talent for keeping the reader glued to the page and, in very different ways, address identity, physicality and the traumas...
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All This Is Very Different
This week we shake it up in subject and locale. Queer Indian girls in Wisconsin, East African political revolts, a Harlem apartment building...