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“Dog-eared”: William Henderson Reviews The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
I’ve enjoyed Jasper Fforde since his first novel, The Eyre Affair, introduced us to Thursday Next and her adventures in book world, and then my appreciation for Fforde deepened as he took a break from Thursday and began a series of books based on nursery rhymes and the detective who investigates nursery crimes. Now, Fforde returns…
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“Dog-eared”: William Henderson on Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
To: YouFrom: Heavy Feather ReviewRe: Where’d You Go, Bernadette You know from the beginning that Bernadette Fox is missing, and that her daughter, Bee, is doing what she can to find her mother, including reading e-mails to, from, and about Bernadette; reviewing memorandums sent home from her school, the Galer Street School; reviewing presentation transcripts;…
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“Dog-eared: What Matters Most, How You Feel When You’re Together”: William Henderson on David Leviathan’s Every Day
The main character in Every Day, the new young-adult novel by David Levithan (one-half of the team behind bestsellers like Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist; Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares; Will Grayson, Will Grayson) is both—and neither—boy and girl, and short one reference to gender on the back cover (which may be fixed by now, since…
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“Coming of Age Glacially”: A Review of Jerry Gabriel’s Drowned Boy by Robert Boucheron
Jerry Gabriel quickly sets the scene in his first book of stories, linked by place and characters. In “Boys Industrial School,” the third sentence reads: “Beyond Nate and Donnie Holland there was just the desolate November woods and the endless hills and Milford Run meandering next to the road among the thickets.” The entire book…
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“Less Pom-Pom, More Circumstance”: William Henderson Reviews Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Cheerleading and friendship, in sixteen-year-old Addy Hanlon’s world—brilliantly created by Edgar Award-winning Megan Abbott in the just-out Dare Me—vie for Most Competitive Sport in the weeks leading up to the big game, where a scout may just help the varsity cheerleading squad get a shot at regionals. What you’ve heard about cheerleaders, and what you’ve…
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“Strange Bravery I Pay the Gods For,” a poem by Sarah Bartlett
We close our eyesso we don’t have to seeeach other. I drive my carthis way and die three timesa week. I keep coming back—life is relentless in its lesson.I drive my car past your housewith my eyes closed and arrive inAtlantic City. I play the penny slotsand stare at Cleopatra.I drop coins in her asp’smouth…
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