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Melissa Holbrook Pierson Author Of The Place You Love Is Gone

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Melissa Holbrook Pierson Why Melissa loves this book

Dense, smart, commanding, at times difficult: Ives has a way of looking at life that is wholly unique.

By Lucy Ives ,

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1 author picked An Image of My Name Enters America as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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What would you risk to know yourself? Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter end, revise, or, possibly, begin all over? In this collection of five interrelated essays, Lucy Ives explores identity, national fantasy, and history. She examines events and records from her own life - a childhood obsession with My Little Pony, papers and notebooks from college, an unwitting inculcation into the myth of romantic love, and the birth of her son - to excavate larger aspects of the past that have been suppressed or ignored. With bracing insight and extraordinary range, she weaves new stories…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Melissa Holbrook Pierson Author Of The Place You Love Is Gone

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Melissa Holbrook Pierson Why Melissa loves this book

It is rare to read a book that is as new as the daybreak: this is that book, which claims territory of its own. No one else has done what Kevin Killian did--he created his own genre.

By Kevin Killian ,

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1 author picked Selected Amazon Reviews as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.

An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.

The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for…


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