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Newsletter #32

March 9, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Boggs: A Comedy of Values

by Lawrence Weschler

TRUE Phinney by Post #3

Our second "True" selection for the Phinney by Post book subscription service (subscribe here!) might be more precisely categorized as "Strange but True." J.S.G. Boggs is an artist both fine and con,... (Tom)

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The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars

by Jean Merrill and Ronni Solbert

MADE-UP

The title of this 1964 picture book (just brought back into print by—of course—NYRB Classics) may be the greatest in the history of publishing—how could you not want to read about its hero's oddly spe... (Tom)

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The Sellout

by Paul Beatty

MADE-UP

It's not easy to be funny for 300 pages, but Paul Beatty pulls it off in this topsy-turvy, never-know-which-way-is-up satire, which leaves you no comfortable ground on which to rest, least of all the... (Tom)

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