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    Staten Island Stories concerns ugly times and circumstances, but the people and the stories are beautiful.”

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    “The novel may be cool as it opens, but the ending is white hot. Both the unnamed family and the anonymous migrant children succeed as individual characters.

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    This strong and varied anthology deserves a different title, one whose first part will not be confused with Geraldine Brooks’ novel of the same name.

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    a fascinating peek into the genesis of Austria's controversial literary figure.”

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    “Ron Rash’s writing resonates with our lives.”

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    “. . . for any true Roberto Bolaño devotee it is a must have.”

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    In his debut collection of poems, acclaimed prose writer Colin Channer has set out to build multiple levels in the construct of a story—life as seen through layers of gauze, probing the complex fam

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    “Everything is groovy by virtue of being me.”

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    “. . . a sympathetic and ironic rendering of a portion of Poe’s life . . .”

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    “Lot is far from a bleak read. Washington’s language takes the dense texture of poverty and turns into poetry.”

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    “Not since Tolkien has a fantasy wordsmith wielded English like a rapier rather than a broadsword.”

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    The challenge in reviewing a book of new and selected poems by a writer of Thomas Lynch’s caliber is that one might feel unequal to the task.

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    “Jeremy Reed is not one of those establishment poets: boring, beige, and bovine. On the contrary, Mr. Reed stands alone, throwing colored glitter in the air.”

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    “readers will enjoy this funny, imaginative, and handsomely crafted novel first and foremost as a memorable work of literature, and as such it deserves to reach a wide audience.”

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    “As moving as are each of these expressions of grief the cumulative effect of Falling Out of Time‘s nearly 200 pages is even more powerful.

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    “Nina Clements has created a family epic with characters who will haunt you for a lifetime. . .

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    A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, though billed as a novel, is a collection of vignettes and interrelated stories concerning various goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women connected in some

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    Different but in a good way.

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