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Newsletter #231

May 6, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir of Conversations

Good Talk: A Memoir of Conversations

by Mira Jacob

TRUE

"Sometimes, you don't know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else." Starting with a premise similar to Ta-Nehisi Coates's in Between the World and M... (Tom)

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Sing to It

by Amy Hempel

MADE-UP

Amy Hempel is one of the modern masters of the short story—really, as many of her admirers would say, of the sentence. Her stories are spare, and mostly short, as are her books, which are a once-a-dec... (Tom)

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The First Rule of Punk

by Celia C. Pérez

MADE-UP

Malu finds herself caught between a Mexican mother who wants her to be the perfect señorita and a music-loving father who helped foster her love of all things punk. After their divorce, Malu and her m... (Gabi)

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