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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

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Twinkle's Big City Knits: Thirty-One Chunky-Chic Designs by Wenlan Chia
Twinkle's Big City Knits: Thirty-One Chunky-Chic Designs

dlpasquin, June 23, 2009

My mediocre knitting skills and I LOVE to flip through the pages of knitting books and imagine "what if"! With Twinkle Big City Knits I was not only oggling some of the chicest designs around--I was knitting them--and quick. Plus there is a cute dog in the book--hard to beat!
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

dlpasquin, June 13, 2008

This book is absolutely beautiful and a must read. I have recently lost my grandmother, and young Oskars insights made so much sense to me at this tender time. By the last page I was left with a mess of tears and a heart more open than it has been in a long time. Be prepared to appreciate people in a whole new way!
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