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Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" by James Joyce
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Peter Orner discusses the short story "Blue in Chicago" by Bette Howland.
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Peter Orner’s new memoir-in-essays is an ode to other books. He helps us see the ways they contain the stories of our lives, too, and understand that reading is essential.
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Erneaux is known for her semi-autobiographical works. The permanent secretary noted her "clinical acuity" in examining personal memory.
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Marlena Shaw's 1969 hit "California Soul" has been sampled time and time again, but Emily Lordi thinks the singer doesn't get enough credit.
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Much has been written about the men of the Mexican Revolution, but what about its women? Co-authors Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed detail the lives of 18 of these female role models and subversives from the last century in their new book, "Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico."
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Writer Sherry Kafka Wagner's 1966 novel has been reissued, and she thinks it might be more relevant today than when she wrote it.
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In two of his previous books, Randall Kenan created the town of Tims Creek, North Carolina. His stories of the goings-on of Tims Creek continue in his latest collection "If I Had Two Wings."
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In Sue Miller’s latest novel, "Monogamy," Annie is a happy wife. Her husband, Graham, is a man with a magnetic personality and big appetites. One day, he seems preoccupied and distant, but her anxiety dissolves when he presents her with flowers.
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Likes is the latest short story collection by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, featuring nine stories.In these, she imagines Black and brown characters who don’t…