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Letter of Recommendation: Aunts

Letter of Recommendation: Aunts

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In 'Having And Being Had,' Eula Biss Maps Capitalist Game Rules Without Breaking Them

In 'Having And Being Had,' Eula Biss Maps Capitalist Game Rules Without Breaking Them

A few years ago, I couldn't stop thinking about Eula Biss's New York Times Magazine essay " White Debt." The …

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What Women Want | Kristen Martin

What Women Want | Kristen Martin

Want by Lynn Steger Strong. Henry Holt and Co., 224 pages. True Love by Sarah Gerard. Harper, 224 pages. Like…

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Amid a Pandemic, Finding Rootedness in An Urban Forest | Kristen Martin

Amid a Pandemic, Finding Rootedness in An Urban Forest | Kristen Martin

My now-husband convinced me to move to Ditmas Park in Brooklyn three and a half years ago by taking me on a w…

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Gaining a Self: On Chelsea Bieker's Godshot by Kristen Martin - BOMB Magazine

Gaining a Self: On Chelsea Bieker's Godshot by Kristen Martin - BOMB Magazine

In Chelsea Bieker's debut novel (Catapult), the fictional town of Peaches, California, is thirsty. Thirsty fo…

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Abolishing the Prison of the Dead | Kristen Martin

Abolishing the Prison of the Dead | Kristen Martin

To get to Hart Island, a hundred-acre sliver of land in the Long Island Sound, you must first make your way t…

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'Catch the Devil' is a work of true crime that indicts the justice system

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| Bytemarks Café (Podcast)
In December 1986, prosecutors in Pinellas County, Fla., had a problem. They had just failed to secure a death sentence against Jack Pearcy in the 1985 killing of 14-year-old Shelly Boggio. The night before her nude body was found with 31 stab wounds, floating in the Intracoastal Waterway, Shelly had spent time drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana with Pearcy, his girlfriend and his two male roommates.
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The Boy Who Grew Up on the Run From the FBI Original

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| The New Republic Verified
In spring 1970, Bernardine Dohrn, the 28-year-old leader of the radical leftist group the Weather Underground, declared a “state of war” against America. “Black people have been fighting almost alone for years,” she argued.
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Confessions of an Exploited Pop Star Original

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| The New Republic Verified
Love, the pop star at the center of Candice Wuehle’s second novel, Ultranatural,feels familiar, like the idol we’ve all known since 1998 when she appeared on MTV singing and dancing through a high school in white button-down, pleated mini skirt, and thigh-high socks.
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