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Sarah Mesle on The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

“Kisses, Kings, Camaros: Maggie Stiefvater’s Rural Epic”

February 21st, 2013
Megan Abbott and Boris Dralyuk on Driven by James Sallis

“Knowing It Has to End”

May 7th, 2012
Lee Polevoi on Bin Laden's Bald Spot and Other Stories by Brian Doyle

“King of the Losers”

February 13th, 2012
Cullen Gallagher on Rapture Alley / Winter Girl / Strictly for the Boys by Harry Whittington

“King of the Paperbacks”

January 23rd, 2012
Amy Ephron on Blue Nights by Joan Didion

“Kind of Blue”

October 27th, 2011
Josh Langhoff on Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism by Chuck Eddy

“King of the Contrarians: Chuck Eddy's "Rock and Roll Always Forgets"”

September 29th, 2011
Casey Walker on The Triumph of the City and Aerotropolis by Edward Glaeser, John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

“Keys to the City”

May 30th, 2011

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