PLUS: Summer Camps

Houghton Mifflin
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Readings

Cheryl Strayed’s debut novel, while addressing autobiographical themes, performs the old-fashioned magic of fiction – it builds a town, fills it with people, reveals their hearts and minds, lets loose upon them the forces of death and lust – and sees what happens
by Marion Winik
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Readings

‘The writing and the ideas here are unimpeachable, and one could hardly question the audacity of the premise,’ writes Josh Rosenblatt of Philip Roth’s terrifying look at a reimagined America, ‘but there is something vital missing’
by Josh Rosenblatt
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Eric Schlosser at BookPeople

“When government makes a free-market activity illegal — smoking pot, buying porn, being an illegal alien — it creates a black market that’s untaxed, unregulated, and often dangerous,” observes Nick Barbaro of Eric Schlosser’s follow-up to Fast Food Nation. “And if you want to see where the government is interfering with the workings of the market, look at the underground economy.”
Avatar photo by Nick Barbaro

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