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Can one honestly recommend a...
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The 2016 Hewitt Award winners for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction are marked by three strong, distinct voices, but the connective tissue...
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Netflix
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Just when you thought his last book had finally closed the chapter,...
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A Piece of Me with HIV is a compelling and valuable document of...
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The AIDS pandemic is only one year shy of turning thirty-five. During all this time, we’ve read...
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author Carter Sickels pulls no punches in this unsparing and deeply felt novel that turns...
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Five graduate students, their assorted friends and lovers, and a self-described...
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The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction
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The eighties were a decade that began twelve straight...
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Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays
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Nothing affects this varied yet cohesive book of beautifully written essays more...
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