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Cover of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks

Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks

by Benjam

I didn't know where this book was headed when I started, and I sure didn't expect where it would end up. Hale grew up in Colorado, but his family is from, and has largely remained, in the steep hills...

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The Queen's Gambit

by Walter Tevis

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #2

As many people discover the story of Tevis's The Queen's Gambit through the new Netflix series, I would like to note, somewhat smugly, that Tevis's novel was our very first Phinney by Post selection,...

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The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards

by Tom Gauld

MADE-UP

This could be a book—it's shaped like one, and it has a title and an author—but once you start taking the postcards out to mail to your friends, who will appreciate Gauld's wry cartoon commentaries on...

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Van Gogh: The Life

by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

TRUE

My goodness. This week, when a customer's special order of two copies of Naifeh and Smith's recent biography of the doomed painter arrived, I was almost overcome by a physical desire to abandon the r...

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Your Face in Mine

by Jess Row

MADE-UP

Your Face in Mine begins with the narrator's encounter with an old friend transformed: a white man who has become, through surgery and chemistry, a black man. It's the old Black Like Me premise, but R...