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Newsletter #251

October 28, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

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Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

MADE-UP

You might, on first glance, find Evaristo's prize winner daunting: the stories of twelve characters, told over 450 pages in a style that, with its idiosyncratic layout and mid-sentence line breaks, lo... (Tom)

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Party: A Mystery

by Jamaica Kincaid and Ricardo Cortes

MADE-UP

This must surely be a first: a Phinney by Post selection has been adapted into a children's picture book. In this case, it was one of the New Yorker Talk of the Town vignettes in Jamaica Kincaid's Tal... (Tom)

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The Topeka School

by Ben Lerner

MADE-UP

If you've read Lerner's cultishly celebrated first two novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, you'll find both familiar and unfamiliar things in his third one. Familiar is the character Adam Go... (Tom)

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