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Each month,J.
Howard Rosierwill offer nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.
You should read as many of them as possible.
How wonderful when a poets novel actually delivers.
I cant keep track.
The parameters of ones story are personal; the onus of calling bullshit rests on us.
Thank God for Lydia Millet.
and the nature of philanthropy.
What does Gils sense of goodness mean when hes never had to worry about anything?
Do the struggles of his careerist friends and acquaintances mean more because theyve had less of a cushion?
An unexpected yet relevant work of art by a master of the form.
Was the sperm test that the narrators wife requested for sampling, or insemination?
The only certainty is the sense of the main character standing in place while everything changes around him.
Or what it means to leave and come back to a space with the expectation of forgiveness.
Throughout, theres an eeriness borne of the relatability of the scenarios.
An absolute clinic on unreliable narration,Which Sideis a blistering send-up of youthful pretension and pseudo-activism.
But the communities, living conditions, and relationships influenced by this state of affairs?
