Chicken Butt
by Erica S. Perl and Henry Cole
MADE-UP
I'll be honest: as a book, Chicken Butt might not hold its own on the picture-book shelf next to the emotional depths of Sendak or the sophisticated wit of Ada Twist, Scientist. It is, after all, just... (Tom)
In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes
MADE-UP
I don't know if it's because the film noir idiom is so familiar or if lit noir (?) is just naturally cinematic, but I didn't so much read In a Lonely Place as I saw and heard it. Hughes's writing is f... (Liz)
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
by Svetlana Alexievich
TRUE
The Unwomanly Face of War is time-machine history: it's not concerned with why events happened, it explains what it felt like to live through them. Or as Nobel laureate Alexievich puts it much more Ru... (Liz)
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