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In the course of human events
\"Battered, bruised, and bloodied by the economic collapse, Clyde Twitty has all but given up hope for the future... Enter Jay Smalls, a charismatic martial artist who exerts an intense magnetic pull. Under Jay's brutal instruction, Clyde begins a series of increasingly frightening tests that draw him into a seedy underworld of bare-knuckle fighting, brazen criminal acts, homemade drugs, and homegrown extremism. Jay reshapes Clyde into a fearless fighter--and directs his burning anger at a deserving target: the government\"--Dust jacket flap.
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George Saunders Writes Through the Darkness
When CivilWarLand in Bad Decline was published, Thomas Pynchon wrote that its young author, George Saunders, was telling “just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times.” By “these times,” he meant the mid-1990s. The book, Saunders’s first short story collection, announced the arrival of a brilliant new American satirist.
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Gish Jen's Tales of Home and Away
The characters of Thank You, Mr. Nixon (Knopf, Jan. 2022), Gish Jen’s expansive new collection of superconnected short stories, are restless. They leave China for America and return, leave America for China and return, traveling between the two countries and cultures as if through a revolving door. Jen, like the second-generation Americans in her book, understands what it is to be “hybrid,” and the inherent tension that requires her characters to engage in frequent acts of translation—linguistic, cultural, and generational—whether they wish to or not.
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The Strange Language of Diane Williams
The 34 short stories of How High?—That High, Diane Williams’s 10th work of fiction, reveal an artist who, at 75, shows no hint of being tamed. But a common subject for Williams—pleasure—may be more complicated now than it was in her earlier books. The first story, “Upper Loop,” begins with, “I am trying to think if there’s any reason for having fun anymore on any level?” In another, “O Fortuna, Velut Luna,” a character considers “the upcoming loss of all kinds of pleasure.”
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Ben H. Winters Puts His Spin on the Legal Thriller
Winters, a remarkably boyish 44, walks me through what he hopes to accomplish today: work on chapter four of Big Time, the novel he just sold to Mulholland, which he calls “a corporate espionage thriller with science fiction elements”; research futures trading and elementary physics for the same book; work on three short stories; check in with the writers room of a TV series he’s involved in; tend to his children when they are released from the digital purgatory known these days as “school.” Winters’s fans may wonder whether the author, known for bestselling mash-ups like his 2009 debut, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, has abandoned the world of asteroids, androids, and insects from hell. Shenk, a widower raising his adopted son with more love than sense, has taken on a “humdinger” of a malpractice case: after a routine operation, teenager Wesley Keener has been walking endless circles.
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Charles Baxter On Craft and Aging
The Sun Collective begins with Brettigan on a train bound for the Utopia Mall, a totem to consumerism that produces “a disorienting spatio-temporal rupture” in visitors. Baxter heard that the number one al-Qaeda target in North America was Minnesota’s infamous shopping mecca, the Mall of America. The result is a novel in which characters can be grounded in the quotidian and communicate with house pets; a novel in which a heartless American president can have a hair-trigger Twitter finger and stoke the flames of the economic divide with poetry.
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In Jess Walter's Latest, History is Repeating
“When I’m reading a first-person novel, sometimes I hear the voice of social media leaking in,” he says. Gig enjoys the affection of local vaudeville legend Ursula the Great; Rye could pass a hundred women with nary a notice. Because of his age at the time of his arrest, he becomes a cause for labor. Mike Harvkey is the author of 'In the Course of Human Events' and was the researcher/reporter for the bestselling true crime book 'All-American Murder.'
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Joe Lansdale Pulps Up the Volume In His Latest
While Nancy’s husband drinks, gambles, and abuses other women (when he’s not abusing her), she runs the family empire—a pair of businesses only Lansdale would dream of conjoining: a drive-in movie theater and a pet cemetery. Lansdale’s been practicing karate since he was 11, and when the writer of more than 100 books also wears a black belt around his waist, analogies between his two practices will be as close at hand as the tsuka of his favorite katana. Mike Harvkey is the author of 'In the Course of Human Events' and was the researcher/reporter for the bestselling true crime book 'All-American Murder'.
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Is Chuck Palahniuk Too Big to Fail?
The second—“Don’t take your foot off the gas until you hear glass breaking”—is a punk rock slogan. Far from an instant bestseller, it didn’t gain any real traction until David Fincher’s film adaptation found a following on home video and in turn directed a cult of fervent fans Palahniuk’s way. Since Fight Club, Palahniuk, whose soft center is shelled by a hard anarchist crust, has released a book a year, with few exceptions. Palahniuk’s forthcoming book, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different, is a curiosity case full of overheard tales, practical advice for writers, casual references to mythology and linguistic anthropology, tattoo designs for the faithful, and anecdotes that are amusing and occasionally insane, such as the one about a reading outside San Diego that went awry.
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Cartoonist Randall Munroe Will Be Your Answer Man
In the digital age, where everything is either a zero or a one, open-source software advocates interpret mu as a query that demands a conceptual rather than literal response, or, to put it another way, it requires un-asking the question. The book, published in 2014, featured a selection of those queries, such as, \"What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?\" (answer: awful, terrible things) and, \"What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?\" (answer: not much, followed by awful, terrible things). In the book, Munroe considers basic problems such as how to move, fun problems such as how to throw a pool party (if you don't have a pool), and problems nobody should really have, such as how to build a lava moat (without prohibitively high heating and cooling costs)--all with his unique blend of the scientific and the silly, and his surprisingly expressive stick figures.
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