Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & More
Moby-Dick and In the Heart of the Sea
Sheridan Hay
Author Sheridan Hay looks at the legacy of popular whaling stories and the lasting reach of Melville’s classic.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWhy Fiction Matters
Re-Vision
Mitchell S. Jackson
Let me tell you how I got popped. Let me start with a couple of hours pre the arrest, when I was in medias res cooking dope in the house I shared—a...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreLines of Resistance
Stronger by Way of Breaking or How to Handle the Failed Election
Anna Dunn
In this personal essay, writer Anna Dunn reflects on her experiences before and after the election, and challenges each of us to ‘see’...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "Florida" by Mavis Gallant
Lynne Tillman
In any Gallant story, life or reality is curious, daunting, often frustrating, sad or tragic. And, she’s funny, too, in her way
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Fiction, Essays & More
Rumm Road
Alice Elliott Dark
We didn’t pay attention to the sirens. Our northern New Jersey town is large enough that car accidents, fires, and petty crimes happen every...
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Transporting Fiction
Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan, author of the debut novel Salt Houses, recommends five books sure to take you to another place.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Nip and Tuck and The End of the World
Diane DeSandersI hate it when Mama cries. Her face screws up and she looks at me with those begging eyes, and then it seems like everything might be about to...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Inland Sea
Stuart Dybek
Horizon, a clothesline strung between crabapples. A forgotten dress, that far away, bleached invisible by a succession of summer days until a...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreSyntax/Synapse Essays
The Science of Magical Thinking
Kristopher Jansma
Saleem Sinai, the narrator of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, is born at exactly midnight on the 15th of August...
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Book Recs
Junior Edition #42
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Jason Carter Eaton, Michelle Schusterman, Derek Milman, and Riley Redgate!
