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It’s a Mystery: With Caviar Comes Money
Londongrad By Reggie Nadelson Walker & Company, 2009 If Dostoevsky created a detective today, it would be Artie Cohen. He broods with world class angst about his Russian roots, his father the KGB...
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Thorns Too
A Vindication of Love By Cristina Nehring Harper Collins, 2009 Were a 25th century anthropologist to attempt to understand the men and women of our epoch by examining the “Relationships” section of...
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Hurricanes, Murders, and Music
The Year Before the Flood By Ned Sublette Lawrence Hill Books, 2009 Labor Day. A parade of black men dressed in shiny gold suits marched down St. Claude Avenue, kicking off the autumn season of second...
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Second Glance: “Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one”
The Lice W.S. Merwin Atheneum, 1967 Reprinted fully in: The Second Four Books of Poems By W.S. Merwin Cooper Canyon Press, 1992 & Reprinted partially in: Migration: New and Selected Poems By W.S....
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A Year with Short Novels: J.L. Carr’s Chance for Renewal
A Month in the Country By J.L. Carr New York Review of Books Classics, 2000 (Originally published in 1980) Happiness is a rare subject. Pain, disillusionment, and misfortune are well documented. Great...
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The Sweetness of Short Novels
This is the introduction to a feature which will delve into a different short novel each month, revisiting classics and considering neglected masterpieces. To read the inaugural essay, on J.L. Carr’s A...
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A Year with Short Novels: “There is a bridge….”
The Bridge of San Luis Rey By Thornton Wilder Original printing 1927, many reissues This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month, revisiting classics and...
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A Year with Short Novels: On Lifting Veils
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot Original Publication, 1859 Public Domain. Available at Google Books. This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month, revisiting...
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A Year with Short Novels: Awash with Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) The Shadow Line (1917) By Joseph Conrad Available at Project Gutenberg This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month, revisiting...
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Year with Short Novels: The Rooms of the Past
So Long, See You Tomorrow By William Maxwell Original publication, 1980 In print through Vintage International This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month,...
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Year with Short Novels: Breakfast at Sally Bowles’
Breakfast at Tiffany’s By Truman Capote Original publication 1958 Sally Bowles By Christopher Isherwood Original publication 1937, Currently in print as part of Berlin Stories This article is part of...
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Year with Short Novels: Diving into Atwood’s Surfacing
Surfacing By Margaret Atwood Original publication 1972 Currently in print through Anchor This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month, revisiting classics and...
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Year with Short Novels: Love, the Limits of Narrative, & The Pilgrim Hawk
The Pilgrim Hawk By Glenway Westcott Originally published in 1940 Reprinted in 2001 by New York Review of Books Classics This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each...
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Year with Short Novels: Elizabeth Smart, Queen of Sheba
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept By Elizabeth Smart Originally published in 1945 Currently in print through Flamingo and Vintage This article is part of a series which delves into a...
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A Year with Short Novels: Of Dogs & Men
We Think the World of You By J.R. Ackerley Originally published in 1960 Reprinted in 2000 by New York Review Books This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month,...
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Year with Short Novels: True Grit & Greatness
True Grit By Charles Portis Published in 1968 In print through Overlook This article is part of a series which delves into a different short novel each month, revisiting classics and considering...
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Of Form, E-Readers, and Thwarted Genius: End of a Year with Short Novels
This article concludes Open Letters’ “Year with Short Novels,” which throughout 2010 delved into a series of short novels, revisiting classics and considering neglected masterpieces. To read the series...
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Year with Short Novels: The Nihilism of Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust By Nathanael West Published in 1933 and 1939 In print through New Directions, Modern Library, & others This article is the last installment of Open...
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It’s a Mystery: With Caviar Comes Money
Londongrad By Reggie Nadelson Walker & Company, 2009 If Dostoevsky created a detective today, it would be Artie Cohen. He broods with world class angst about his Russian roots, his father the KGB...
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Thorns Too
A Vindication of Love By Cristina Nehring Harper Collins, 2009 Were a 25th century anthropologist to attempt to understand the men and women of our epoch by examining the “Relationships” section of...
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