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Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

April 19, 2021

metropolitan

Regardless of where you live, if you love the art and artifacts of human history, then you’re probably familiar with Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I lived in NYC it was one of my favorite places to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: art, debut, humor, magic, Manhattan, short stories

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

July 20, 2016

tsar of love

I could not pass up the opportunity to share the love again for a book that I adored. I'm not a big short story reader, but Marra connects the dots so well that The Tsar of Love and Techno reads like ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Hogarth, literary, Russia, short stories

The Tsar of Love and Techno

March 7, 2016

tsar of love

  For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer.    The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, historical fiction, Hogarth, Russia, short stories

A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

November 30, 2015

a wild swan

When I think of Michael Cunningham many things about his writing come to mind: poetic, compelling… so many adjectives, and yet funny is not among them. Not that he is dark or his writing is without ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: fairy tales, Farrar Straus Giroux, literary, retellings, short stories

Of Things Gone Astray

February 16, 2015

Magical realism is the moving force behind author Janina Matthewson’s, Of Things Gone Astray, an enchanting novel about the everyday realities of life. In it she follows six different people in London ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, magical realism, short stories, The Friday Project

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