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**Bookworm**

Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.

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Nadja Spiegelman: I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This Oct 13, 2016

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Since memory is not only malleable but unreliable, which version of the truth will prevail?

Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn Oct 06, 2016

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Another Brooklyn, award-winning Young Adult novelist Jacqueline Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years, tells the story of childhood friends as they grow into women.

Marisa Silver: Little Nothing Sep 29, 2016

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An ugly young dwarf girl transforms first into a beauty, then into a tall woman, then into a wolf.

Affinity Konar: Mischling Sep 22, 2016

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In Auschwitz, the infamous Dr. Mengele conducted horrifying physical and psychological experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Affinity Konar's Mischling (meaning mixed blood) is the story of twin sisters who find themselves imprisoned in Dr. Mengele's "zoo."

Adam Fitzgerald: George Washington Sep 08, 2016

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Adam Fitzgerald's poetry in George Washington: Poems comes across as playful while exploring the concept of Americana and what that means.

Krys Lee: How I Became a North Korean Sep 01, 2016

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Krys Lee's first novel dramatizes boundaries and borders – not just political ones but those that complicate human relationships.

Joe McGinniss Jr: Carousel Court Aug 25, 2016

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A married couple wind up in a wasteland of foreclosed houses and abandoned homes.

Tom McCarthy: Satin Island Aug 18, 2016

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Tom McCarthy's Satin Island features a protagonist who, as his company's corporate anthropologist, has been given the enormous task of compiling a report summing up the modern era.

Tom Lutz: Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World Aug 11, 2016

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In his travels to more than 100 countries – some dangerous, some surprisingly not – Tom Lutz finds that the more places he goes, the more the world leaves him a little bit lost.

Michelle Latiolais: She Aug 04, 2016

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Neither a novel nor a collection of stories, the "fictions" in She weave together a composite view of Los Angeles.

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