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Best Books of the 21st Century???

By Jessica Morrell Posted in American Fiction, Jessica Page Morrell , All the Light We Cannot See, Brooklyn, Claire Keegan, Cutting for Stone, Denis Johnson, I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger, Margot's Got Money Problems, Olive Kitteridge, Richard Powers, Rufi Thorpe, Small Things Like These, The Best Books of the 21st Century, The Known World, The New York Times, The Overstory, The Road, The Sisters Brothers, The Worst Hard Time, Train Dreams, Winter's Bone | No Comments »

Dawn is shouldering in here bringing another day of hot weather. It got up to 105 this past week. If you live in North America you might be in a similar hotbox.  But I managed to escape to the Oregon coast for a few days of bracing Pacific air. As in temperatures in the 50s […]

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