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Richard Russo's New Novel is a Beach Read With a Grit of Sandnew

Despite its flaws, That Old Cape Magic succeeds as a funny, forgiving profile of a man crawling his way towards self-knowledge just in time to make things right.
New Haven Advocate  |  Jolisa Gracewood  |  08-11-2009  |  Fiction

Lavinia Greenlaw's Book is for Anyone Who Was Ever a Girl or Has Ever Loved Musicnew

Music's remorseless grip on our hearts and minds is the subject of British novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw's slow-burning, exquisitely idiosyncratic new book, The Importance of Music to Girls. In bite-sized chapters, Greenlaw hurtles down the rabbit hole and reconstructs her musical education, starting with her earliest memories and ending with her leaving school.
New Haven Advocate  |  Jolisa Gracewood  |  08-05-2008  |  Fiction

'The Ten Year Nap': You Snooze, You Losenew

Meg Wolitzer explores the "Opt-Out Revolution" in novel form.
New Haven Advocate  |  Jolisa Gracewood  |  04-01-2008  |  Fiction

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