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A GATE AT THE STAIRS by Lorrie Moore
Book Quote: “The flat, green world of my parents’ hogless, horseless farm—its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery—twisted away and left me with a...
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While driving from Tucson to Quartzsite today, I listened to a conversation/intervew with Jeff Melnik, the author of 9-11 CULTURE, a book published earlier this year. He takes a look at a broad...
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ZEITOUN by Dave Eggers
Book Quote: “Why are we here?” he asked a passing soldier. “You guys are al Qaeda,” the soldier said. Todd laughed derisively, but Zeitoun was startled. He could not have heard right. Zeitoun had long...
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THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED by Sue Miller
Book Quote: “No more Gus. No more Billy, either, not as they were then. Taken away – - by death, by life, inexorable life. Billy felt tears at the back of her throat, but she didn’t yield to them.”...
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THE COLOR OF NIGHT by Madison Smartt Bell
Book Quote: “Above the dry hills the air turned white — that shimmering electric pallor that pretended to promise rain in the desert, and the hard wind swirling up grit from the ground, while Ned...
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LIGHTNING PEOPLE by Christopher Bollen
Book Quote: “If you take any event and isolate it, blow it up huge so you can study its slightest grain, there’d be a million tiny impossibilities worming every which way across the landscape, all the...
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THE SUBMISSION by Amy Waldman
Book Quote: “Mo was tired of the bellicose, lachrymose religion the attack had birthed, was sickened by the fundamentalists who defended it by declaring the day sacred, the place sacred, the victims...
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