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    Ben­jamin Selesnick

    Ben­jamin Selesnick is a psy­chother­a­pist in New Jer­sey. His writ­ing has appeared in Bare­ly South Review, Lunch Tick­et, Tel Aviv Review of Books, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He holds an MFA in fic­tion from Rut­gers University-Newark.

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    Fic­tion
    Love, Cof­fee, and Revolution
    Ste­fanie Leder
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    Fic­tion
    Glass Cen­tu­ry
    Ross Barkan
    Cover of Confidential
    Fic­tion
    Con­fi­den­tial
    Mikołaj Gryn­berg; Sean Gasper Bye, trans. 
    Cover of Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir
    Fic­tion
    Eight Very Bad Nights: A Col­lec­tion of Hanukkah Noir
    Tod Gold­berg
    Cover of The Collaborators
    Fic­tion
    The Col­lab­o­ra­tors
    Michael Idov
    Cover of Desires
    Fic­tion
    Desires
    Celia Dropkin; Anita Norich, trans.
    Cover of A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
    Fic­tion
    A Plague of Cholera and Oth­er Stories
    Jonah Rosenfeld; Rachel Mines, trans.
    Cover of Amerikaland
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    Amerika­land
    Dan­ny Goodman
    Cover of On Her Own
    Fic­tion
    On Her Own
    Lihi Lapid; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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    Fic­tion
    The Heav­en & Earth Gro­cery Store
    James McBride
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    The Golem of Brook­lyn: A Novel
    Adam Mans­bach
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    Gang­sters Don’t Die
    Tod Gold­berg
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    Fic­tion
    The Veg­an
    Andrew Lip­stein
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    Fic­tion
    Hope: A Novel
    Andrew Rid­ker
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    Non­fic­tion
    Cas­soulet Con­fes­sions: Food, France and the Stew That Saved My Soul
    Sylvie Bigar

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    Guilt and the Greenspans: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Andrew Ridker

    Ben­jamin Selesnick
    July 24, 2023

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