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41 An Interview With Jennifer Egan, Author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
"I think the genre it most closely resembles is a '70s concept album like Quadrophenia or Tommy or Ziggy Stardust…"
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42 Book Review: My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me, Edited by Kate Bernheimer
There are still rewards beyond our wildest imagining awaiting us out in the world — we only have to open our eyes to see them.
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43 Book Review: Unpleasant Tales by Brendan Connell
Get your warm and fuzzy someplace else. This isn't your father's horror and depravity.
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44 Book Review: Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories by Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor's first collection of short stories, about the not-quite-lovable, but humanized, losers in life.
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45 Book Review: Agents of Treachery, Edited by Otto Penzler
Engaging stories filled with characters equally as compelling as their plots.
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46 Book Review: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
It is hard to find someone to like in the novella; the protagonist is a cross between Dickens's Miss Havisham and Faulkner's Benjy Compson.
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47 Book Review: The Gourmet Club by Junichiro Tanizaki
Very good short stories that just miss the mark for greatness.
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48 Book Review: Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
Thirty-six cities, thirty-six stories. With tales of misery and imagination bursting with kaleidoscopic styles and off-kilter storylines, the pointillistic Metrophilias evokes moods from poignancy to black humor.
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49 Book Review: Warriors edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Warriors is big enough to use as a weapon, but includes 20 amazing examples of great short fiction!
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50 Book Review: Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind by John Edgar Wideman
A collection of microstories from an award-winning author with a style described as "hip-hop zen."
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