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Friday, July 19, 2019

Flygirls

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Naomi Novik, Temeraire, The Philosopher's Flight, The Philosopher's War, Tom Miller

In this Fantasy Spin on WWI, Women Can Fly…Literally

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Like a Bad Neighbor

July 15, 2019July 17, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Lock Every Door, Riley Sager, Rosemary's Baby

‘Lock Every Door’: the NYC Gig Economy Turns Deadly

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This Novel is in Trouble

July 11, 2019July 10, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Fleishman Is In Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

‘Fleishman’: Shallow, Spineless, and Overrated

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Less Cowbell

July 10, 2019July 9, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Daisy Jones And The Six, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Jenkins Reid

‘Daisy Jones and the Six’

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The Strange Case of the Vinyl Detective

July 8, 2019July 17, 2019 Kevin L. Jones 1 Comment Andrew Cartmel, The Vinyl Detective

A British Record-Collecting Sleuth Turned Me Into a Mystery Guy

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s New Novel is Good, Dammit

June 27, 2019June 28, 2019 Wendi Aarons 0 Comments City Of Girls, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah Winfrey

‘City of Girls’ : Eat, Don’t Pray, Have Loads of Sex with Sailors

FICTION Young Adult

‘Patron Saints Of Nothing’

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay, Rodrigo Duterte

A Filipino-American Teen Immersed in Duterte’s Drug Crackdown

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Murder at the Magic School

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Harry Potter, Lev Grossman, Magic For Liars, Sarah Gailey, The Magicians

In ‘Magic For Liars,” a Private Eye Who’s Not a Dick

FICTION Young Adult

‘Let Me Hear A Rhyme’

June 19, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Biggie Smalls, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Malik Shafir, Malik-16, Tiffany D. Jackson

Remembering Non-Hipster Brooklyn in the 90s, and a Hip-Hop Mystery

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A Porpoise-Driven Life

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, The Porpoise

Mark Haddon’s New Novel Plays With Narrative, to Narrative’s Detriment

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Orgasm on Aisle Three

June 11, 2019June 12, 2019 Clara Lou 0 Comments

‘Whore Foods’: Employees Getting Nasty Among the Produce

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Not Everybody Must Get Stoner

June 10, 2019June 9, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Ig Publishing, John Williams, Steve Almond, Stoner, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life

Steve Almond Attempts to Extend the Reputation of Literature’s Most Overrated Academic Novel

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I Predict a Lit Riot

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Melissa Holbrook Pierson 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Rachel Kushner, Riots I Have Known, Ryan Chapman, The Mars Room

Ryan Chapman’s ‘Riots I Have Known,’ a Prison Novel That’s Actually a Literary Satire

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How George Orwell Made 1984

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments 1984, Dorian Lynskey, George Orwell, The Ministry Of Truth

‘The Ministry Of Truth,’ a Definitive, if Very English, Biography of Modernity’s Most Prophetic Book

FICTION Young Adult

‘Girl Gone Viral’

June 3, 2019June 2, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Gone Viral

Ready Player Whatever in a Young-Adult VR Dystopia

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