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    de George Ovitt ...
    Most of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I'm put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth. The Showcase aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place—Philadelphia in the 1980s—and to do so by unraveling the intimate lives of ordinary people, individuals coming of age in the decade when America was transformed into a ... Leer más

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  • Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays about Literature

    Initially conceived of as a literary correspondence between them, authors George Ovitt and Peter Nash set out to chronicle their reading experiences in a series of short essays about the literature they love. Ultimately, in just over five years, they wrote more than 350 such essays, their favorite of which they've assembled in this collection under the title, Trotsky's Sink: Ninety-Eight Short ... Leer más

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  • Tribunal

    de George Ovitt ...
    Tribunal is a novel about judgments. How, in the clear light of the present, do we make sense of the past? What do we remember, and what do we choose to forget? Two people, survivors of the tragic events of the wars in Indo-China—a solider and a State Department employee—cross paths by accident on another momentous occasion, Inauguration Day, 1981. They spend a few hours exchanging versions of the ... Leer más

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  • Stillpoint

    de George Ovitt ...
    “All of these random memories sped through Elle’s brain like minnows through a warm shallow, each jot of recollection a tiny fish, living for just a few seconds before gobbled by some larger, more predatory entity—the rattle of the stove as it demanded more cedar or the rumble in her empty stomach.”Stillpoint tells the story of a single day in the life of an older woman living alone with her books ... Leer más

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  • An Incomplete Education

    3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't

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  • Ex Libris

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    **Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout.“A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey“An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)**In the introduction to her new ... Leer más

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  • Speedboat

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    When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban ... Leer más

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