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The Convalescent
The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010
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Tagged America, book review, butchering, butchers, change, communication, connection, contemporary fiction, destiny, fate, fiction, health, history, Hungarian, Hungarian history, immigrant American experience, immigrant experience, loneliness, meat, medication, midgets, mutes, novel, odd, pain, perspective, quirky, reality, transformation
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Woes of the True Policeman
Woes of the True Policeman is a novel by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer, © FSG 2012
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Tagged academia, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, novel, research, scholarship, south america, south american literature
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Autobiography of Us
Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013
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Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011
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Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process
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American Appetites
American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, © Harper & Row 1989
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, court, death, domestic space, domestic violence, existentialism, fear, feast, fiction, loneliness, novel, perspective, power, power dynamics, relationships, violence
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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior is a novel by Barbara Kingsolver, © HarperCollins 2012
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Tagged adaptation, adultery, American south, book review, Christianity, contemporary fiction, culture, emotional weight, feminism, fiction, global warming, knowledge, loneliness, love, marriage, miracle, novel, perspective, power, reality, religion, southern culture, supernatural, women, women's issues
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Child Wonder
Child Wonder is a novel by Roy Jacobsen and translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, © Graywolf Press 2011 *Wow sorry for the mishap. I wrote this last week and it never published! Enjoy two videos this week! Woo-hoo!
The Fifty Year Sword
The Fifty Year Sword is a novel or a graphic novel or a prose poem. It is fiction. It is written by Mark Z. Danielewski, © Pantheon Books 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, contemporary poetry, East Texas, epic poem, epic poety, Ergodic literature, fiction, fragments, frames, ghost story, ghosts, graphic novel, imagery, loneliness, novel, poetry, postmodernism, prose poem, prose poetry, supernatural, visual poetry, voice
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Replacement
Replacement is a novel by Tor Ulven and translated by Kerri A. Pierce, © Dalkey Archive Press 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, depression, dreams, fiction, loneliness, meaning, novel, old age, poetry, prose poetry, reality, translation, vignettes
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