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Newsletter #276

June 29, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Grief

Grief

by Andrew Holleran

MADE-UP

Old Book of the Week by Andrew Holleran Thomas Wolfe once divided novelists into "putter-inners" (like himself) and "taker-outers," who pared their art down to its bones. This is one of the taker-oute... (Tom)

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The Jolly Postman, or Other People's Letters

by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #44

The Jolly Postman, by the British married duo, the Ahlbergs, was a throwback when it was published in the '80s and seems even more so now, but its inventiveness remains, with letters between Mother Go... (Tom)

Cover of The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

MADE-UP

Within the first few pages of The Vanishing Half, I knew I was reading something special. In this slow-burn novel, twins Desiree and Stella grow up in Mallard, a small black community in segregated Lo... (Anika)

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