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Jamwriter Article - Not Enid Blyton
“I remember Blyton as a harridan of the worst order. I dowsed her in Pimms and she melted away. Hidden Tunnel, my arse...” ~ Noel Coward...
Dominic Schunker
Dec 9, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The celebrated author of Go Ahead in the Rain returns with a far-reaching collection of twenty essays, each one a remarkable synthesis of...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female physicians in the United States, this mesmerizing novel begins in...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue
In the fictional African village of Kosawa, the locals live in fear of Pexton, a predatory American oil corporation, whose destructive...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Mona, by Pola Oloixarac
On the morning that Mona, a young Peruvian-American writer, is set to fly to a Swedish convention where she’s been nominated for a...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this blistering sequel to 2015’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s nameless North Vietnamese spy, last seen speeding...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
In Ishiguro’s first publication since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, we meet the humanoid robot Klara, an Artificial...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster
Set in the foothills of North Carolina, Coster’s gripping sophomore novel centers on two mothers: Jade, a Black single mother striving to...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel
Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s sweeping novel gives voice to three...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
Never has the experience of being Extremely Online been more viscerally rendered than in No One Is Talking About This, Lockwood’s...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler
One of the year’s sharpest debut novels, Fake Accounts opens on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, when a young woman snooping on...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder
The novelist and viral poet behind So Sad Today returns with her outstanding second novel, a bold and luscious story of desire in all its...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen
Chen’s remarkable debut collection of stories unfolds across the modern Chinese diaspora, pinballing between acutely observed realism and...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll
Carroll’s searing memoir recounts her complicated childhood as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, where even the love...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Love Is an Ex-Country, by Randa Jarrar
Through the lens of a transformative cross-country road trip from California to Connecticut, Jarrar recounts her lifelong hunger for...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion
From a titan of American letters comes a compendium of twelve early pieces, never before anthologized together, which find everyone from...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, by Matthew Salesses
In this firmament-shattering examination of how we teach creative writing, Salesses, a novelist and professor, builds a persuasive...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns with another sobering look at our Anthropocene Epoch, this time...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
"The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world," George Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain....
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas
In this moving prequel to The Hate U Give, the smash bestseller that launched Thomas into the literary stratosphere, Thomas returns us to...
Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
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