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    Hot Pants in Hollywood
    Susan Sil­ver
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    If All the Seas Were Ink
    Ilana Kurshan Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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    The Adul­ter­er’s Daughter
    Patri­cia Weiss Levy
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    Last Things
    Marissa Ann Moss
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    The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
    Michael Frank
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    Tales of a Bulim­ic Babe
    Iris Ruth Pastor
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    The Exhi­bi­tion­ist: Liv­ing Muse­ums, Lov­ing Museums
    Karl Katz
    Interview

    Inter­view: Miri­am Libicki

    Michelle Zau­rov
    May 11, 2017
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    Hun­gry Heart
    Jen­nifer Weiner
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    The Tinc­ture of Time
    Eliz­a­beth L. Silver
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    Are You Anybody?
    Jeffrey Tambor
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    For Two Thou­sand Years
    Mihail Sebastian
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    The Book of Separation
    Tova Mirvis
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    Eat My Schwartz
    Geoff and Mitch Schwartz, with Seth Kaufman
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    Jump­ing Over Shadows
    Annette Gendler
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    Schaden­freude, A Love Story
    Rebec­ca Schuman
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