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Outpatient Management of Isolated Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions in Pediatric Patients: 2026 ACC Concise Clinical Guidance: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee
4 Description, Rationale, and Implications The goal of this CCG is to provide cardiologists and other clinicians who care for patients with CHD with a decision support tool for the outpatient management of left-to-right shunt lesions (Figure 1).
Means to an Ending: A Review of Iain Reid's debut novel -
By Brian Birnbaum. Iain Reid, I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Scout Press, 2016) Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things walks like a trim Stephen King thriller but talks like a Wittgenstein thought bubble. Its opening lines reveal as much: “I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always. Jake once said, ‘Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action.
The Canon of Guilt
There’s nothing to indicate that this evening’s 20-minute amble to the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum will end differently. We take to the block like another of our twilight strolls. Down 150th, greeting neighbors and their dogs. Up Broadway, passing the flower shop, Taqueria San Pedro, a bodega that smells inexorably of frying bacon. Along 153rd, the cemetery to our left walled off by gothic concrete and iron-slat gates.
The five pieces Lit Hub readers loved last week…
If you’re a regular Lit Hub reader, you know that we publish quite a bit every day of the week. No one can be expected to read everything, but we thought it might be helpful to start offering a weekly round-up of five stories that got the most reads. Without further ado, for the week of May 13th. . .
Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather
Today is a mortal equinox for the Fish family. It’s been six months since Papa Julie died, and six more will pass before Grandma Gertrude does too. With Grandma Gert having recently moved into an assisted living home, the surviving Fishes come to take inventory of their brick house in Hempstead. It’s in this driveway that the infamous Yellowstone trip began.
Lost Artifice: A review of Lost Empress by Sergio De La Pava -
For those unaware of Sergio De La Pava’s improbable ascension, the Manhattan defence attorney’s mammoth debut, A Naked Singularity, espoused the highest of literary aspirations with irrefutably fun storytelling. Yet when querying agents back in the early 2000s, De La Pava was met with the literary industry’s inability to understand that salable fiction isn’t necessarily accessible fiction.
Cordell Marius Is Ushering In a New Generation at Harlem's Rucker Park
Cordell Marius is the newly crowned king of the Entertainers Basketball Classic at Harlem, NY’s famed Rucker Park. His reign is undisputed, and his uncle, the late Greg Marius, made sure of this. He’d tapped the younger Marius as next in line some five years ago, when he was first diagnosed with colon cancer. Cordell has been tasked with plotting the sequel to what his uncle did over 30 years ago—revive Rucker Park, all while grieving the elder Marius.
Duncan Barlow's The City, Awake: A Noir Palimpsest -
The noir novel drops us into a world whose contours we know well: an urban sprawl of violence and sex and caustic pith, with a mystery (a murder, usually) at its center. At the level of logic—the how and the why of its wanton, crime-ridden ways—the noir world simply is. For the reader it must remain this way, through a suspension of disbelief, as her immersion in the narrative depends on not calling it into question.
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