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Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Expert, unblinking prose about the sturm und drang of family life Familial sturm und drang stirs up the ten stories in Robin Black’s sobering debut collection — whether it’s a father watching his...

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Maile Meloy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

A perfect fusion of physical location and the writer’s personality Maile Meloy has a true sympathy for characters. This is not to say that the personalities that pop from her latest short story...

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David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Don’t mistake Sedaris’s darkly witty animal stories for Aesop’s fables There’s no mistaking David Sedaris’s Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary for a book of Aesop’s fables. Though the...

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Ben Greenman, Celebrity Chekhov

A novel about the contemporary Chekhovian archetype — the celebrity To understand the premise behind Ben Greenman’s Celebrity Chekhov is a multi-step process, so stay with me for a minute: the...

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Maile Meloy

In the ongoing discussion of whether women writers are given the same respect, praise and attention as male writers (see: Franzen, Jonathan; The New York Times Book Review; countless feminist/book...

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James Franco, Palo Alto

James Franco steps into the lives of average high schoolers Palo Alto is an exception. For adults writing about adolescence, there’s a tendency to do so through the eyes of precocious young people with...

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David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair

Lean, mean chunks of satire by the author of Infinite Jest If all you know of the late David Foster Wallace is that bulletproof buffet of otherworldly dystopian post-modern ultra-brilliance Infinite...

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Aidan Moffat

Though peevish poets have been known to argue that lyrics are merely poems set to music, one need only recall Jewel‘s book of verse to realize that what plays on the radio won’t necessarily play on the...

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Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories

Patricia Highsmith reveals the troubled minds behind heinous crimes Patricia Highsmith is best known in the US as a writer of crime novels primarily attendant to murder, conspiracy and deception, but...

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Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories

Needless to say, Ernest Hemingway’s sudden suicide left his literary estate in great disarray, prompting a flood of posthumous releases (one count totaled more than 300 unpublished manuscripts at the...

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McSweeney’s, McSweeney’s Field Recordings Volume 4

Investigative journalism meets speculative fiction in this must-hear McSweeney’s collection A body of water that looks like “a case of pink eye inflamed to geological scale.” Smart phones that dictate...

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Jim Shepard, You Think That’s Bad

One of the rare books that truly transfigures human suffering When the bereaved mother of one of Jim Shepard’s characters refers to their household as “our miserable little kingdom,” it’s a description...

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Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock

The escape to a better, imagined life, the poisoning influence of pride and the pretensions of class: Munro at her finest. The queen of the deceptively gentle short story, Alice Munro has always mined...

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Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Stories that dissect the familiar tropes of womanhood The title of Elissa Schappell’s short story collection comes from a vintage ’60s etiquette guide that B, the playwright-protagonist of “Aren’t You...

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Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda

A tour through one of the most fertile literary careers of the past 40 years The best way to look at Don DeLillo’s new collection of short stories is as a tour through one of the most fertile literary...

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Interview: Nathan Englander

The characters in Brooklynwriter Nathan Englander’s gripping new story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, like to talk. They like to argue, they like to proclaim, they...

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Emma Straub, Other People We Married

A promising collection from a bold new writer   Take Lorrie Moore’s wit and combine with Annie Proulx’s sparseness, add a dash of Maile Meloy’s melancholy, and the result is Emma Straub’s captivating...

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Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knock at the Door

Stories about loneliness, alienation, depression and death in worlds of magical realism It might seem a bit odd to call Etgar Keret’s collection Suddenly, a Knock at the Door a delight. It’s 35 stories...

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Best Audiobooks of 2012 So Far

Summer is upon us. Whether the new season finds you looking for a beach read, some brain food, or something to listen to on a road trip, we’re sure you’ll agree that it’s already been a good year for...

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Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

A kaleidoscopic view of a relationship in crisis from an actor who understands charactersWhether it’s a chance encounter or code-red crisis, every gesture in Molly Ringwald’s fiction debut has a ripple...

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