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Newsletter #57

September 14, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Boats for Papa

Boats for Papa

by Jessixa Bagley

MADE-UP

What a sweet and tender book! Seattle artist Bagley makes a breathtaking debut with this tale of two beavers, a mother and son, who live at the shore and miss an absent father. It's a story of hope, l... (Tom)

Cover of Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

by Jessica Abel

MADE-UP

As hard as it is to believe that This American Life turns 20 this fall, it's equally hard to imagine public radio without the imaginative long-form storytelling it introduced. Using another recently b... (Tom)

Cover of Pages from the Goncourt Journals

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

TRUE

The Goncourt brothers were snobs, egotists, misogynists, reactionaries, and not, as it turned out, the immortal novelists they desperately hoped they would be, but their words (and those they recorded... (Tom)

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