Writer: novels, short story, memoir... Core Faculty @ConverseMFA
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Iced coffee/Perdomo… THE PREDICAMENT: A GABRIEL DAX NOVEL @groveatlantic by William Boyd @Williamboyd29 travel writer-turned-reluctant spy 1963 Guatemala global CIA MI6 skullduggery. Twists turns and craft in the best spirit of Graham Greene ever solid smart agile and stylish.
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Iced coffee/AF…YOUR NAME HERE @Dalkey_Archive by the inimitable Helen DeWitt @helendewitt and mysterious Ilya Gridneff @IlyaGridneff 1st as a PDF in ’08 now 600 pp of madness mischief and delight, recursive excoriating and ascorbic, a honeycombed work of art becoming itself.
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Iced coffee/Perdomo… THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE @RedHenPress by Helen Benedict @helenbenedict War vet saves the lives of his assassinated Iraqi interpreter’s family bringing them to his upstate NY home. Are redemption and forgiveness possible? Hearts and minds. Hard truth. Unflinching.
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Iced coffee/Nica Rustica… THE MONK @groveatlantic by Tim Sullivan @TimJRSullivan When a beloved yet mysterious monk is brutally murdered, Detective Sergeant Cross faces a case with no leads, while his personal life is thrown into disarray. Why would someone want to harm a monk?
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Iced coffee/Perdomo… CRAZY GENIE @nyrbclassics by Inès Cagnati (1937–2007). A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother—a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village after giving birth out of wedlock. Devastating, lyrical, ingenuous.
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Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo…WE LOVED TO RUN: A NOVEL @penguinrandom by Stephanie Reents about a women's cross country team how far girls will push themselves to control their bodies friendships futures. Told w fidelity honesty boundless empathy. Powerful, beautiful, heart-breaking.
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Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… Lázár: A Novel by Nelio Biedermann. Dreamlike beautiful sad haunting story the benighted Hungarian aristocracy backs the wrong horse untold death and terror and the consequent suffering of generations to come.
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Iced coffee/RyJ… TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES: THE IMPROBABLE RETURN OF GREAT CATS TO THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA AND CHINA by Jonathan C. Slaght Riveting account of this great sentient charismatic being, the scientists/people who live with, the forest, the life force. Extraordinary.
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Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE @mulhollandbooks by Jordan Harper @jordan_harper. Outstanding. Courageous. In a time of monsters you write about monsters. Ripped from the headlines. The New Noir.
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Iced coffee/Le Bijou 1922… DIRTY METAL: A NOVEL @Flatironbooks debut by Allison LaMothe. Tenacious reporter w a habit of too many pills to erase bad memory, mafia turf wars, a murdered woman, bad cops, NYC in chaos. Gritty, fast-paced mystery. A good reminder to trust no one.
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Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… TAILBONE @BloomsburyPub debut Che Yeun. Seoul 2008, an unnamed teenage girl runs away... a poignant tale about survival, the impact of colonial and familial violence, class, privilege, and womanhood, a powerful thrilling fascinating novel, a new talent.
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Iced coffee/San Lotano…THE HOUNDING @HenryHolt wonderful debut gem of a novel by Xenobe Purvis about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. Richly atmospheric. The pleasures and perils of female defiance.
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Iced coffee/Micallef CT…BUCKEYE @randomhouse Patrick Ryan patrickryanbooks.com/ Thinking about writing a multi-generational novel spanning decades? This is one to read and study: its weave transitions and momentum, the way it breathes thinks speaks and the beat of its heart.
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Iced coffee/Padron… THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT: A NOVEL @penguinpress by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Deep study the mind of a creative, the finer psychological ethical moral lines, the accumulated past expected future, the meaning of lives our own and lives of others. A work gravitational.
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Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… SPLENDID LIBERATORS @fsgbooks by Joe Jackson. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines. Soul stripping account of untold history: betrayal, resistance, torture, atrocity, plunder, imperialism, murder, madness, white supremacy. Spanish-American war. Then as now.
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Iced coffee/Padron… ALMOST LIFE @simonschuster by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. 1978 sultry summer two young women meet in Paris. Decades, a tour de force, the enduring power of young love and the poignant heartbreak of missed chances, personal, political, the almost lives we live.
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Iced decaf/Cuban Parejo… THE READER’S ROOM by Antoine Laurain institut-francais.org.uk/rea… a thrilling stylish murder mystery set in the world of Parisian publishing pushkinpress.com/our-authors…
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Iced coffee/Le Bijou 1922… THE POLITICIAN @groveatlantic Tim Sullivan @TimJRSullivan DS George Cross must unpick never-ending list of seedy connections to find her killer…8 so far: patient, methodical, humane, fabulous and not so gory. Jump in anywhere. groveatlantic.com/book/the-p…
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Iced coffee/Perdomo… EVENT HORIZON @FeministPress Balsam Karam. One day Milde and friends throw Molotov cocktails at the urban planning office in the city. Reflection, solidarity, trauma, and loss. Her arrest, torture, exile. Read this a while ago and it continues to haunt me.
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Iced coffee/Perdomo… A BEAUTIFUL LOAN @wwnorton Mary Costello. Dublin 19 yr old Anna Hughes marriage, bereavement, betrayal. Unfolding across twenty–five years, about innocence, the shame and humiliations of love, the cost of seeking salvation in others. youtube.com/watch?v=MkFiU3RO…
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