Blogs in July 2020

Real Life 28th July 2020

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His...

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Love in La La Land 27th July 2020

Excited to be in glamorous Hollywood, English author, Jane Jones is thrilled by the prospect of being on a film set. Too bad, she is accompanied by cynical Jack Clancy, the screen-writer who has adapted … and ruined …...

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Set in Stone 27th July 2020

Carey’s poems tell stories—as dreams, as memories, as rituals or ceremonies. He embraces the mystery of nostalgia, worn and cemented by time, the haunted remembrances that string a life together. These are poems of place and of people (real...

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Foreign Gods, Inc. 26th July 2020

From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed’s power to subsume all things, including the sacred. Foreign Gods, Inc.,...

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The Tourist Attraction 26th July 2020

He had a strict “no tourists” policy…until she broke all of his rules.When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he’s stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort...

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