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Newsletter #24

January 12, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Fierce Attachments

by Vivian Gornick

TRUE Phinney by Post #1

The first selection for our Phinney by Post subscription service is a book I hadn't opened until a couple of months ago, but after reading just the first two pages I was pretty sure I had found Book #... (Tom)

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The First Bad Man

by Miranda July

MADE-UP

If you've seen Miranda July's movies or read her story collection, No One Belongs Here More Than You, you might have an idea of what to expect from her first novel. But otherwise, how to explain Miran... (Tom)

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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

by Catherynne M. Valente

MADE-UP

At first I was just smitten with the title, and imagined what story inside could live up to it. Unsurprisingly, a word-drunk one. After all, September, the thoroughly admirable girl of the title, "lik... (Tom)

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