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Chaucer, Melville, Nathanael West, Wiliam Vollmann

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T. Jefferson Parker: Thousand Steps (2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1992, Penguin)
Nick Schou: Orange sunshine (2010, Thomas Dunne Books)

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Giacomo Leopardi, Michael Caesar, Franco D'Intino: Zibaldone (2015)
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Andrew Cole: The legitimacy of the Middle Ages (2010, Duke University Press)
Christopher Breu: Insistence of the Material (Paperback, Univ Of Minnesota Press)

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Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys (Hardcover, 2019, Doubleday)
William Faulkner: The sound and fury. Faulkner (1956, The Modern Library)
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Patricia Lockwood: Priestdaddy (2017)

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reviewed There There by Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange: There There (Hardcover, 2018, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's …

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Read this as the spider weaves its web, make a character map as you go! Set in present-day Oakland, each chapter told from a different character's perspective with a central (apocryphal?) chapter unattributed to any voice. Not exactly the caliber of a Wm. Faulkner, Leslie Marmon Silko or Ana Castillo but comparable, Orange has some lurches but his wordcraft is very fine, it's story compelling and authentic. There some implausible marksmanship but thankfully no magic realism, readers are expected to keep up, for plot coherenece best to knock it out in one or two reading sessions.