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Newsletter #146

July 24, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Arbitrary Stupid Goal

Arbitrary Stupid Goal

by Tamara Shopsin

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First of all, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is not about football. (It's just a funny cover.) It is, ostensibly, about the general store Tamara Shopsin's parents ran in Greenwich Village, which they turned in... (Tom)

Cover of Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

by Kenny Shopsin

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Anybody who falls in love with Shopsin's from Tamara's book (see above) will, naturally, want to turn to this ten-year-old cookbook, designed by Tamara but written by Papa Shopsin himself, the foul-mo... (Tom)

Cover of Little Wolf's First Howling

Little Wolf's First Howling

by Laura McGee Kvasnosky and Kate Harvey McGee

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #19

Our neighbor Laura McGee Kvasnosky, with many children's books to her name, has collaborated on this charming picture book with her sister Kate: a father-son tale, set in familiar Western landscapes,... (Tom)

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