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Lost in the Stacks
I read widely and compulsively and my fancies are ever changing. My love of reading, however, is no mere fancy.
National Book Award Shortlist announced!
The National Book Award shortlist has been announced!
Fiction:
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Millions review, Millions interview)
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (excerpt)
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (excerpt)
- Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon (first page, excerpt)
- Tenth of December by George Saunders (Millions review)
Nonfiction:
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (review)
- Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (Millionsreview)
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 by Alan Taylor (review)
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Poetry:
- Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart (review)
- Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido (review)
- The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka (excerpt)
- Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
- Incarnadine by Mary Szybist (review)
I haven't gotten to any of these yet - any suggestions where to start?
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