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Newsletter #233

May 20, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

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America Is in the Heart

by Carlos Bulosan

MADE-UP

Republished by Penguin this week alongside three other mostly neglected classics of Asian American literature (John Okada's No-No Boy, Younghill Kang's East Goes West, and H.T. Tsiang's The Hanging on... (Tom)

Cover of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

by Casey Cep

TRUE

One of the great mysteries of American literature—what was Harper Lee working on for the fifty years after To Kill a Mockingbird?—was left mostly unanswered after her death in 2016, but Casey Cep has... (Tom)

Cover of United Tastes of America: An Atlas of Food Facts and Recipes from Every State!

United Tastes of America: An Atlas of Food Facts and Recipes from Every State!

by Gabrielle Langholtz

MADE-UP

There are plenty of cookbooks for kids, and lots of oversized illustrated books of facts too, but I've never seen the two combined, and in such an appealing way. Langholtz has adapted her giant book f... (Tom)

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