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Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

January 24, 2021

I’ve always thought that one phase of life I’d not willingly re-visit is junior high—today’s middle school. Plunging into Jason …

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

January 12, 2021

From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter, edited by Jessica Harrison As an antidote to the holiday murder mysteries I’ve …

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Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories by Susan Minot

November 13, 2020

The satisfaction of a short story: a glimpse into a life, a space, a possibility (or lack thereof). A glance, …

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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

November 14, 2019

The best book I’ve read in 2019 (so far, anyway). Strout’s stories are about individuals who are old, sick, damaged, …

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Rounding out the past year

January 9, 2014

I closed 2013 by finishing a book that I’ve been picking up and putting down for months, as well as …

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Dear Life by Alice Munro

November 11, 2013

A week after the announcement that Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for her beautiful, evocative short stories, I …

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Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading

February 10, 2013

Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …

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54 of 55: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

December 19, 2012

Most of us know Flannery O’Connor from her classic short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953), the …

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37 of 55:The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt

August 10, 2012

I love how A.S. Byatt writes—and I haven’t read enough of her work, as a glance at her list of …

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31 of 55: Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien

June 24, 2012

Saints and Sinners is a collection of Edna O’Brien’s recent short stories. I’ve read two of her novels—Wild Decembers (1999) …

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