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The Short Version: After the critical success of his first novel, a thirtysomething author deals with having to write a second while also being diagnosed with a heart condition, trying to get his best...
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Rainey Royal
The Short Version: It’s the Village in the ’70s and Rainey Royal is trying to figure out who she is. We meet her first at age 14 in her big house on West 10th St, her father an oblivious jazz musician...
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Selected Shorts 30th Anniversary
Oh, the short story. So easy to fuck up – and yet, when done well, so absolutely transcendent. I have struggled with the form as a writer and, recently, as a reader: I find collections difficult to...
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Adam
The Short Version: When straight awkward male teenager Adam goes to stay with his older sister in New York City for the summer, he’s ready for his life to change. She’s in the midst of the gay rights...
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Short Version: In 1976, gunmen attempted to assassinate Bob Marley on the eve of the great Smile Jamaica Concert. The novel begins the day before the assassination attempt and then leaps forward...
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Mother Night
The Short Version: Howard Campbell Jr., one of the most notorious Nazi propagandists, was also an American double agent. But was he too good at his “fake” job? As Vonnegut says in his ‘introduction’ to...
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Shovel Ready (Spademan #1)
The Short Version: After a dirty bomb decimates Times Square, New York City empties out in one way or another. Those who can afford it slip into the limn, a perfect virtual reality, while those who...
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Selected Shorts: Make Something Up with Chuck Palahniuk
my terribly messy scribblings all over the program… Have you ever been to a Chuck Palahniuk reading? The last one I went to, I got hit in the face with a bag of Almond Joy (hurled by Mr. P himself),...
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City on Fire
The Short Version: On New Year’s Eve 1977, a young woman is shot in Central Park. How does she connect to a newspaper reporter, a fireworker, a Long Island kid who wants to be punk, some philosophical...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Short Version: It’s 1939 when Joe Kavalier arrives on the Brooklyn doorstep of his cousin Sammy Klayman, freshly escaped from Prague. The two dreamers cook up an idea for a comic book character –...
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Ragtime
The Short Version: A family struggles to define itself, an immigrant struggles to make a life, a man struggles for respect, and a nation struggles overall in this kaleidoscopic view of the opening...
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M Train
The Short Version: Over the course of a year and a half or so, Patti Smith reflects on the roads she has traveled to come to this point as well and also recounts some of the roads she continues to...
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Oreo
The Short Version: Christine Schwartz (nicknamed Oreo) is born in Philadelphia to a Jewish father and an African-American mother. Her father left when she was only a few years old and when she comes of...
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Read Bottom Up
The Short Version: Guy & girl meet. Tell their friends. Guy gets girl’s email, asks to meet up. Dating ensues. So does miscommunication, recommunication, sex, drinking, awkward conversations, and...
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The Whites
The Short Version: Twenty years ago, a group of cops known as the Wild Geese were an aggressive anti-crime unit. Today, only one of them – Billy Graves – is still on the force, working the literal...
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Near Enemy (Spademan #2)
The Short Version: Spademan has returned to his usual work (killer for hire) after the events of Shovel Ready – but when his next target wakes up out of the limn to say that somebody killed somebody...
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Sweetbitter
The Short Version: In June 2006, 22-year-old Tess arrives in New York City. She soon finds a job working at a prestigious restaurant in Union Square and falls under a spell: the spell of the city, the...
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Condominium
The Short Version: Charles and Sarah, a present-day yuppie couple, have just bought a condo in Williamsburg, right on the water. It should be the perfect next step in their relationship and their...
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