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Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day
I love Felicia Day. She is perky (a word I hate, but which actually applies perfectly here), but also highly self-aware,...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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The Only Good Indian by Stephen Graham Jones
Jones recreates the way our minds work, the way we believe all the terrifying things we would never give voice to because they are too...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Nunez quotes Simone Weil, “The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘What are you going through?’”...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 27, 20241 min read
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The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem reinvents his oeuvre in nearly every novel. I can’t think of many writers who leap so fearlessly from one genre to the...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 27, 20241 min read
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Eat a Peach by David Chang
First, I love the cover of the book. A tiny man rolls a giant peach up a mountain, a la Sisyphus. I’ve followed David Chang since he...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
Although I hadn’t read the Young Adult novels from which Attack Surface spins off, I was already familiar with Cory Doctorow’s work and...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan
In A Touch of Jen , Alicia and Remy come across as beings that mimic humanity, seemingly basing their behavior on the shallow, curated...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
I knew I was happy to be on this ride from the first sentence. A reference to (the fictional) Proofrock, Idaho had me googling to make...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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On Fascism: 12 Lessons From American History by Matthew C. MacWilliams
MacWilliams front loads the text with a sort of state-of-the-union in which he shares some truly terrifying statistics. For example, he...
Crystal Hicks
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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