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Newsletter #316

January 24, 2022

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4 books featured in this issue

Cover of A Pin to See the Peepshow

A Pin to See the Peepshow

by F. Tennyson Jesse

There’s a literary True Crime wave cresting in 2022 and it is Meta: teeming with books of all types that dissect our long obsession with the genre. Centuries before Penny Dreadfuls were condemned for... (Liz)

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Act One: An Autobiography

by Moss Hart

TRUE Phinney by Post #85

There's a reason that Act One, a massive bestseller when it came out in 1959, is still beloved by theater kids everywhere as the great Broadway memoir. Hart himself was as stage-struck as they come, a... (Tom)

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The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

by Tom Gauld

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #73

One of the best things a fairy tale can do is take a bizarre premise and make it seem natural, following wherever its strange rules lead. What would happen, for example, if a childless royal couple ha... (Tom)

Cover of When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West

MADE-UP

(Tom)

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