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Newsletter #252

November 4, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

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Animalia

by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

MADE-UP

The buzz surrounding this award-winning French author’s first English translation—the saga of a family of pig farmers—always includes a warning along the lines of “You’ll never eat bacon again!” Well,... (Liz)

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Roar Like a Dandelion

by Ruth Krauss and Sergio Ruzzier

MADE-UP

While we wait for her weird and wonderful collaboration with Maurice Sendak, A Hole Is to Dig, to return from the out-of-print limbo to which it's been inexplicably banished, we have this never-before... (Tom)

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This Is Pleasure

by Mary Gaitskill

MADE-UP

To say that Mary Gaitskill is the ideal author to translate the #MeToo movement into fiction doesn't really do justice to the subtlety of her work, or the complexity of the movement. But nevertheless,... (Tom)

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