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Jamwriter Spotlight - Dog Flowers, by Danielle Geller
Geller’s skill as an archivist takes center stage in her formally ambitious memoir, constructed from the ephemera of her late mother’s...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Aftershocks, by Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu is the daughter of an Armenian-American woman who all but abandoned her as a toddler and a larger-than-life Ghanaian diplomat...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead
This sweeping novel, beginning in 1914 and clocking in at just under six hundred pages, revolves around two lead characters: Marian...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny
Few writers so memorably capture the quirky interior lives of their characters as Heiny, the author of Standard Deviation. She returns to...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Last Call, by Elon Green
In this gripping true crime story about the Last Call Killer, who preyed on New York City’s queer men during the 80s and 90s, Green...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright
What if you could look at life from outside of life? What would you see? That’s the provocative question posed in this previously...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton
In this striking debut novel, structured as a polyphonic oral history, a magazine editor traces the electrifying origin story of Opal...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Third Eye Rising, by Murzban F. Shroff
In these warm and wise parables of an ever-changing India, Shroff explores the tension between spiritual faith and modern life. In the...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Atmospherians, by Alex McElroy
McElroy’s thrilling debut novel centers on Sasha, a wellness influencer who comes into the crosshairs of men’s rights activists when a...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - An Ordinary Age, by Rainesford Stauffer
All too often, we’re told that young adulthood will be the time of our lives—so why isn’t it? Stauffer explores the diminishing returns...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Appleseed, by Matt Bell
In this epic speculative novel, Bell braids three narrative strands: the eighteenth-century rise of a proto-Johnny Appleseed, a portrait...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
The summer’s most visionary work of nonfiction is this radical reckoning with slavery, as represented in the nation’s monuments,...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in the summer’s buzziest debut: a blistering work of semi-autobiographical fiction about Nella, the...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Somebody's Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford
In this searingly honest memoir, Ford recounts her turbulent coming of age in Indiana, where she was raised by a volcanic and sometimes...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Falling, by T.J. Newman
Written by a former flight attendant while she worked red eye trips, this bruising thriller unfolds over the course of one...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Nightbitch, by Rachel Yoder
In this unforgettable debut novel, Yoder delivers an outrageous Kafka-esque parable about the mundanity and monstrosity of early...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Matrix, by Lauren Groff
Groff’s first novel since Fates and Furies (which dropped in 2015) turns the clock back—way back. In these incandescent pages, Groff...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead goes back to his literary beginnings in his first noir since 1999's The Intuitionist. In Harlem Shuffle, it’s 1959, and used...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - Billy Summers, by Stephen King
King’s latest endeavor begins with a familiar premise: ex-Marine sniper Billy Summers, a principled hit man on the eve of retirement,...
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Nov 29, 2021
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Jamwriter Spotlight - A Calling for Charlie Barnes, by Joshua Ferris
With A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Ferris has written his finest novel yet: a fabulist yarn about a flawed father in the twilight of his...
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Nov 29, 2021
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