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Tag Archives: contemporary fiction
The Dog Stars
The Dog Stars is a novel by Peter Heller, © Knopf 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, apocalypse fiction, book review, contemporary fiction, death, fiction, friendship, homosocial space, killing, loneliness, loss, male space, men, novel, reality, ruthlessness, violence, women
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Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph Avenue is a novel by Michael Chabon, © HarperCollins 2012 *Click the book title to see Michael Chabon’s adorable web page for Telegraph Avenue & his fictional Brokeland Records
Posted in Book Review
Tagged absent fathers, blaxploitation, book review, business, California, contemporary fiction, disappointment, entrepeneurs, fatherhood, fathers, fiction, film, jazz, music, novel, Obama, record stores, records
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The Convalescent
The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010
Posted in Book Review
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
Posted in Book Review
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
Posted in Book Review
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
Posted in Book Review
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
Posted in Book Review
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
Posted in Book Review
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!
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