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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 - The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in the summer’s buzziest debut: a blistering work of semi-autobiographical fiction about Nella, the...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead goes back to his literary beginnings in his first noir since 1999's The Intuitionist. In Harlem Shuffle, it’s 1959, and used...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Billy Summers, by Stephen King
King’s latest endeavor begins with a familiar premise: ex-Marine sniper Billy Summers, a principled hit man on the eve of retirement,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Calling for Charlie Barnes, by Joshua Ferris
With A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Ferris has written his finest novel yet: a fabulist yarn about a flawed father in the twilight of his...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Palmares, by Gayl Jones
When Toni Morrison discovered Jones in the seventies, she said of her debut novel, Corregidora, “No novel about any Black woman could...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
Expectations were high for Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s first outing since she became a global literary phenom—and her 2021...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Reprieve, by James Han Mattson
It’s April 1997, and four hopeful contestants have made it to the final room of the Quigley House, a “full contact” haunted escape room...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Camper Girl by Glenn Erick Miller
While her friends head off to college, Shannon Burke is stuck with a dead-end job and the responsibility of saving her mother’s business....
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Names of All the Flowers by Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir—”poignant, painful, and gorgeous” (Alicia Garza)—explores siblinghood, adolescence,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment by Therese Doucet
Violaine, a devotee of books and learning, is sold by her father to a mysterious nobleman to become his companion. Fearing herself at the...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Temporary by Hilary Leichter
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness,...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 29, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out...
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Rastus Makimbe
Nov 23, 2021
Jamwriter Spotlight - A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by...
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