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Blogs in January 1970

Infinite Jest 1st January 1970

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie...

A Tale for the Time Being 1st January 1970

One day, about a year after the Japanese tsunami, frustrated author Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the beach near her island home off Canada’s west coast. Subsequent inspection reveals that it contains a diary written...

Murder on the Bow 1st January 1970

Calgary, Alberta – City of oil barons and equestrians: saints and sinners: the exquisitely rich and the desperately poor… and murderers. Detective Chris Crane knows all these worlds. He knows the high stakes games played by the politicians and...

Wild 1st January 1970

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive...

Snow in August 1st January 1970

In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of...