Blogs in January 1970

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union 1st January 1970

The novel supposes that in 1940 the American Congress passed the Sitka Settlement Act to allow persecuted Jews of Europe to seek refuge, in Alaska, and that they would access to this land for 60 years. A book redolent...

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Girls I Know 1st January 1970

In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships : one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate...

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Wichita 1st January 1970

The novel begins with Lewis’s return to his mother’s home in Wichita, Kan., from New York, where he has just graduated from Columbia. His pompous professor father, Virgil, expects him to attend graduate school, though Lewis is unsure of...

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One of those Malibu Nights 1st January 1970

P.I. Mac Reilly and assistant Sunny are involved in Hollywood mogul intrigues. A woman holds a gun, and shoots, then goes missing. Allie Ray, star of the big screen also goes missing. The trail takes the investigators from Malibu...

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Inherent Vice 1st January 1970

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A....

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