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The Hearing Trumpetis a weird and wonderful cult classic that delights in its singular strangeness.

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White, Patti Smith, Teju Cole.

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He is an excellent addition to the canon of great unreliable narrators in literature.

Mexican essayist and novelist Valeria Luiselli makes me want to be a better reader and thinker.

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A must-read if you like vintage clothes, the smell of old library books, and unrequited love.

But here we all are.

The linked stories inSpectaclefeel as though theyre breaking new ground even as they zero in on universal emotions.

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An unnamed woman separates from her husband, takes their young daughter, and moves into a pristine apartment.

Karolina Waclawiak is a fearless writer, and her debut novels self-destructive heroine is motivated by loneliness and longing.

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The Days of Abandonment, by Elena Ferrante (2002)

I didnt know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love.

Its huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.

And every day its proved right it grows a little more monstrous.

The Odd Woman and the City, by Vivian Gornick (2015)

If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession.

Winterson writes heroically about love, about politics, and about the things that occupy our minds.

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