Carla Sarett
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J.D. Salinger, Deborah Eisenberg, Isak Dinesen, I.B. Singer, P.G. Wode
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Crazy Lovebirds
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2013
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Strange Courtships: Nine Romantic Stories
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2012
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Skive Magazine (April Fools Day - April 2013)
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The Looking Glass
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2021
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A Closet Feminist
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She Has Visions
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The Art Collection; Three Short Stories
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2014
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Spooky & Kooky Tales
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2014
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Love Hurts! 21 Humorous Stories
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The Art Collection: Three Short Stories
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Fun, fast-paced and witty mystery, although it lacks the structural inventiveness of Magpie Murders. Hooks from first page, and gallops along, with writer/Watson and ex-police/Holmes on the case. Solution is quite satisfying, too. (2023–Updated— list ...more |
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Appel’s a great storyteller, and his essays raise subtle ethical questions in the most “natural” way— he asks big questions (is our medical system doing harm to the elderly) as well as small questions (how does the theft of a child’s toy matter?) The ...more | |
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Such a stylish writer. The voice in these stories is young, fierce, and out of sync with the world— but even in surreal moments, there is softness. (Kids and dogs welcome here.) My favorite: “North Of” - a young woman brings Bob Dylan to Thanksgiving ...more | |
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If I wanted to describe how San Francisco feels today, I might grab a line from one of Taylor’s post-beat, beaten down city poems. He’s been walking the streets, drinking, and taking it in. And peppered with acid-tart poems about today’s social media ...more | |
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Spare brave poems in which a nameless gay narrator confront his “barbedwire” roots— a dead grandmother who devalues him, a father “hard to find,” a hostile religion, a “rapist with no name.” A dstinctive voice here. | |

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I wonder if you'd be interested in joining The Completists Club? I have a discussion thread for Muriel Spark there. You seem to be a Spark Completist ;-)
Here it is, in case of interest:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...