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Dominic Schunker
Dec 9, 2021
Jamwriter Article - Not Enid Blyton
“I remember Blyton as a harridan of the worst order. I dowsed her in Pimms and she melted away. Hidden Tunnel, my arse...” ~ Noel Coward...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Little Devil in America, by Hanif Abdurraqib
The celebrated author of Go Ahead in the Rain returns with a far-reaching collection of twenty essays, each one a remarkable synthesis of...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female physicians in the United States, this mesmerizing novel begins in...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue
In the fictional African village of Kosawa, the locals live in fear of Pexton, a predatory American oil corporation, whose destructive...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Mona, by Pola Oloixarac
On the morning that Mona, a young Peruvian-American writer, is set to fly to a Swedish convention where she’s been nominated for a...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this blistering sequel to 2015’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s nameless North Vietnamese spy, last seen speeding...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
In Ishiguro’s first publication since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, we meet the humanoid robot Klara, an Artificial...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster
Set in the foothills of North Carolina, Coster’s gripping sophomore novel centers on two mothers: Jade, a Black single mother striving to...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel
Beginning unforgettably with a young girl’s high-octane escape from a Catholic reform school, Engel’s sweeping novel gives voice to three...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
Never has the experience of being Extremely Online been more viscerally rendered than in No One Is Talking About This, Lockwood’s...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler
One of the year’s sharpest debut novels, Fake Accounts opens on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, when a young woman snooping on...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder
The novelist and viral poet behind So Sad Today returns with her outstanding second novel, a bold and luscious story of desire in all its...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen
Chen’s remarkable debut collection of stories unfolds across the modern Chinese diaspora, pinballing between acutely observed realism and...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll
Carroll’s searing memoir recounts her complicated childhood as the only Black person in a rural New Hampshire town, where even the love...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Love Is an Ex-Country, by Randa Jarrar
Through the lens of a transformative cross-country road trip from California to Connecticut, Jarrar recounts her lifelong hunger for...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion
From a titan of American letters comes a compendium of twelve early pieces, never before anthologized together, which find everyone from...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping, by Matthew Salesses
In this firmament-shattering examination of how we teach creative writing, Salesses, a novelist and professor, builds a persuasive...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns with another sobering look at our Anthropocene Epoch, this time...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
"The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world," George Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain....
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas
In this moving prequel to The Hate U Give, the smash bestseller that launched Thomas into the literary stratosphere, Thomas returns us to...
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