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Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
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Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
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The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is a collection of poetry by Nick Flynn, © Graywolf Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abu ghraib, book review, contemporary, contemporary poetry, emotional weight, knowledge, language, nick flynn, pain, perspective, poetry, testimony, violence, witness
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Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann, © Random House 2009.
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Tagged 9/11, contemporary, fiction, iraq war, new york city, postmodernism, vietnam war
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