Books

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Book Reviews: Varieties of Disturbance

By Pauline Uchmanowicz

Largely devoid of setting, definitive narrative structure, character development, and other familiar conventions, these 57 stories defy easy categorization.

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Book Reviews: Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here

By Kim Wozencraft

The epigraph, a quote attributed to Heraclitus, best captures the essence of these essays: “You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”

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Subversive Complications

By Elizabeth Dubben

The praise her first book received couldn’t match Kakutani’s exuberance over Eat the Document. Spiotta’s “stunning new novel,” the Times critic proclaimed, possessed “the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the historical resonance and razzle-dazzle language of a Don DeLillo novel.”

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Short Takes

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Five picks for summer reading.

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Coming Up Roses

By Nina Shengold

Paetro told a friend she’s reached the point where her name will be linked to James Patterson’s in her obituary.

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Dana Spiotta: _Eat the Document_ Excerpt

By Dana Spiotta

Five state borders, and then she was handing over the cash for the room—anonymous, cell-like, quiet.