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Newsletter #241

July 29, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Chronic City

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem

MADE-UP

Reading last week about the late Michael Seidenberg, I got to thinking about this book by his great friend Jonathan Lethem, who started selling books for him as a young Brooklyn teenager. Perkus Tooth... (Tom)

Cover of Deep River

Deep River

by Karl Marlantes

MADE-UP

Having missed out on Marlantes's fiercely admired Vietnam epic, Matterhorn, and in the mood for a big Northwest tale, I decided Deep River, only his second novel in four decades of writing, would be m... (Tom)

Cover of Searching for Shona

Searching for Shona

by Margaret J. Anderson

While perusing a list of women mystery writers’ favorite mysteries by women, one plot synopsis caught my eye: two girls swap identities while evacuating Edinburgh in 1940. When I looked on Goodreads i... (Liz)

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