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66% complete! Brent Sleeper has read 10 of 15 books.
From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of the del Pino …
Set in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of …
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests
After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton …
Since a winter morning in 1971 when a teacher wheeled a teletype into his classroom to debut a game about …
Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story—something played and something told. …
The distinctive typography and elegant compositions designed by William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (American, 1883-1966) have become icons of the American …
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object …
Taking a certain elm-shaded street in a small Middle Western town—a street whose houses appear …
Something like a great pane of glass, opaque from one side, transparent from the other, divided the two halves of Elm Street. [One half] knew a great deal about what went on in the comfortable houses on the hill. But when they or any of their friends and neighbors passed under the arc light at the intersection, the comfortable part of Elm Street lost all contact with them.
— Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell (Page 36)
That other half is a “down-at-the-heel neighborhood [of] a few white families and most of the Negroes of Draperville.”
Homesteaders Jack and Mabel have carved out a quiet life of hard work and routine for themselves in the wilderness …
Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as …
In a market crowded with translations of Dante’s poetic masterpiece, Michael Palma sets himself apart. He has rendered Inferno into …
A fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace and maintain …
In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to …
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of …
*New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin …
