The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read
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A novel about a young man and the orca named Lolita who knows him better than he knows himself
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In his new book, How Not to Kill Yourself, Clancy Martin describes feeling addicted to the idea of taking his own life.
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I’ve spent my life immersed in language, but this relationship, like all relationships, is fraught.
Alex Merto A Grand Contrivance
Together, the Easy Rawlins mysteries constitute a sprawling novel of manners about black Los Angeles in the mid twentieth century
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