Jul 17 2015
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Harper Lee’s new novel, the much anticipated and much-written about Go Set A Watchman, is a difficult book. A lot of…
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Nathan is a writer and editor living in rural Pennsylvania.
Dec 15 2014
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Frank Portman’s great new novel, King Dork Approximately, is a lot like its 2006 predecessor King Dork. It falls…
Aug 18 2014
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Reading Justin Taylor’s new short story collection, Flings, is like reading two books, one by a good literary…
Jul 28 2014
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The press materials for Stephanie Feldman’s The Angel Of Losses describe it as an “inventive, lushly imagined debut…
Jul 25 2014
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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…
Jun 16 2014
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The Last Magazine is a well-meaning, sometimes well-written book about the culture and industry of magazine feature…
May 12 2014
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In a short preface to his new book, The Last Kind Words Saloon, Larry McMurtry writes a sort of mea culpa: “I had…