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The Stories of John Cheever , by Micah Nathan

John Edgar Wideman: The Last Great Radical, by Michelle Hoover

Recommending "First Love" by Samuel Beckett - William Walsh

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz - Janice Shapiro

In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch, by Koren Zailckas

One Good Book Leads to Another, by Caroline Leavitt

Winter Reading: Jane Brox's Brilliant, by Belle Boggs

Cynthia Morrison Phoel's Cold Snap, by Tracy Winn

The Possibilities of Fiction, by Michael Kimball