Prose
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Jobs for Philosophers
A touching and complicated story of a college professor and the lovers, children, and friends who capture her heart. By Michelle Herman, author of the novel Dog.
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Salvage
A memoir of childhood summers spent in small-town Missouri, in a grandfather’s mysterious salvage yard — and of the surprising ways memory itself is an ongoing reclamation project. By Andrew Wingfield.
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Dying Makes You Stronger
Magoo and Audrey work together at the Hawaii Center for Tourism and Culture. When Magoo sets himself on fire, his death is just his first big surprise. By Lance Uyeda.
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Media Vuelta
A Mexican musician travels to America to look for the wife he lost years ago. From Michael Jayme-Becerra, author of the short story collection Every Night Is Ladies’ Night.
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Small Mercies
When Peter’s wife killed herself, he could only be grateful that she’d spared his son. A novella from Tim Winton, the Booker Prize–nominated author of Dirt Music.
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Stray
The best-paid court reporter in Boise, Idaho, moves to San Francisco and brings home an unexpected stray—a toddler. By Melissa Yancy.