Al Riske
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Sabrina's Window
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2012
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The Possibility of Snow
7 editions
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2015
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Precarious: Stories of Love, Sex, and Misunderstanding
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2010
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Then We'd Be Happy
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Combustible
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Together: Three Short Novels
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Switchback: Horizontal vs. Vertical
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"I loved comic books as a kid. I collected them (I still have the collection) and read them voraciously. But in my teens I moved on to read other things, and hadn’t read one in decades. I recently watched Sin City and loved it, so I felt an itch to re"
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"A new edition of a cult British novel from the sixties by poet and novelist Rosemary Tonks. Up until now copies of The Bloater have been rare, printed once in 1968 and only now reprinted, it was made even scarcer by the actions of its author. Tonks b"
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"I struggled with what to rate this book. Artistically it’s a four star book. For my enjoyment, it’s a three. Saunders is known or his Sci-fi, compelling/strange storylines, and, of course, the intentionally awkward prose (ie., missing articles, rando"
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“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.”
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“They lived in the high desert, a sort of tumbleweed heaven, an imperfect paradise somewhere south of bliss.”
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“I didn’t have to see your face to know it had turned into ice. Ice that could easily crack and fall to pieces if you weren’t careful.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
― Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews

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