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September 11, 2018

American ugly

Paul Constant

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  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    by Ottessa Moshfegh
    Penguin
    July 10, 2018
    288 pages
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  • Sabrina
    by Nick Drnaso
    Drawn and Quarterly
    May 22, 2018
    200 pages
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September 06, 2018

The magic kingdom

Paul Constant

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  • Fantasyland
    by Kurt Andersen
    Random House
    September 05, 2017
    480 pages
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August 29, 2018

Don’t Read THAT, Read THIS

Ivan Schneider

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  • No Immediate Danger
    by William T. Vollmann
    Viking
    April 10, 2018
    624 pages
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  • The Emissary
    by Yoko Tawada
    New Directions
    April 24, 2018
    128 pages
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  • Auto-da-Fé
    by Elias Canetti
    Translated by C. V. Wedgwood
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    December 01, 1984
    464 pages
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  • The Animal Gazer
    by Edgardo Franzosini
    Translated by Michael F. Moore
    New Vessel Press
    January 16, 2018
    128 pages
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  • Fantasyland
    by Kurt Andersen
    Random House
    September 05, 2017
    480 pages
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August 28, 2018

The jailbreak is the easy part

Paul Constant

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  • Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
    by Donald Westlake
    Hard Case Crime
    February 18, 2018
    256 pages
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August 14, 2018

The nothing in the white robe

Paul Constant

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  • Black Klansman
    by Ron Stallworth
    Flatiron Books
    June 05, 2018
    178 pages
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  • Everything You Love Will Burn
    by Vegas Tenold
    Nation Books
    February 20, 2018
    320 pages
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August 08, 2018

Snowflakes

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  • Brother in Ice
    by Alicia Kopf
    Translated by Mara Faye Lethem
    And Other Stories
    June 05, 2018
    320 pages
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  • Natural Wonders
    by Angela Woodward
    Fiction Collective 2
    April 01, 2016
    152 pages
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  • Kamchatka
    by Marcelo Figueras
    Translated by Frank Wynne
    Black Cat
    May 03, 2011
    312 pages
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August 07, 2018

The Russia stuff

Paul Constant

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  • A Terrible Country
    by Keith Gessen
    Viking
    July 10, 2018
    342 pages
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July 31, 2018

Almost like being in love

Paul Constant

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  • Night Beast
    by Ruth Joffre
    Black Cat
    May 08, 2018
    208 pages
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July 24, 2018

The walking dead

Paul Constant

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  • Suicide Club
    by Rachel Heng

    July 10, 2018
    334 pages
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July 18, 2018

Inspecting expectations

Bonnie J Rough

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  • Like A Mother
    by Angela Garbes
    Harper Wave
    May 29, 2018
    256 pages
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July 17, 2018

Going the distance

Paul Constant

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  • The Last Mosaic
    by Elizabeth Cooperman, and
    Thomas Walton
    Sagging Shorts
    July 01, 2018
    130 pages
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