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Newsletter #279

July 27, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Gender Queer

Gender Queer

by Maia Kobabe

This delightfully illustrated graphic memoir is an emotional and straightforward account of self-discovery and acceptance. Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, explores coming to terms with eir genderq... (Anika)

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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

by Sarah Manguso

TRUE

This short, unconventional memoir is an account of Sarah Manguso’s meticulously kept diary: eight hundred thousand words written over twenty-five years. I am fascinated by people who keep daily record... (Anika)

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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

by Adrian Tomine

MADE-UP

I hope it doesn't trivialize last week's New Book of the Week, Erica C. Barnett's memoir of alcoholic blackouts and self-destruction, to say that the humiliating confessions in this book are nearly as... (Tom)

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