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Book Public: 'Music Against the Night' by Yiyun Li

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Book Public: 'My Heart Is Broken' by Mavis Gallant

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Book Public: 'Simple Recipes' by Madeleine Thien

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Mirror Books: The books that helped Sandra Cisneros see herself

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Book Public: 'Unsayable' by Michael Cunningham

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Book Public: 'The Typing Lady' by Ruth Ozeki

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Book Public: 'Descanso for My Father' by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

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Book Public: 'The Things We Never Say' by Elizabeth Strout

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Book Public: 'A History of Heartache' by Patrick Strickland

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Book Public: 'Ghosts of Fourth Street' by Laurie Hertzel

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Book Public: 'Ashland' by Dan Simon

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Book Public: 'One Sun Only' by Camille Bordas

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Book Public: 'To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty’s Correspondence with Frank Lyell’

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Book Public: 'Time of the Child' by Niall Williams

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Book Public: Giving thanks through poetry

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Book Public: 'The Art of Jacques Pépin'

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Book Public: 'Startlement' by Ada Limón

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Book Public: 'At Last' by Marisa Silver

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Book Public: 'A Guardian and a Thief' by Megha Majumdar

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Book Public: 'Girl Warrior' by Joy Harjo

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Book Public: 'Starting from Here' by Paula Saunders

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Book Public: 'Kaplan's Plot' by Jason Diamond

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Book Public: 'The Waterbearers' by Sasha Bonét

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Book Public: ‘Weepers’ and ‘Exhibitionist’ by Peter Mendelsund

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Book Public: ‘Tonight in Jungleland’ by Peter Ames Carlin

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Book Public: 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter' by Peter Orner

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Book Public: 'The End is the Beginning' by Jill Bialosky

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Book Public: 'Friends with Words' by Martha Barnette

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Book Public: 'Love, Rita' by Bridgett M. Davis

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Book Public: "Loneliness" from the collection 'Second Childhood' by Fanny Howe

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Book Public: 'The Slip' by Lucas Schaefer

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Book Public: “Birdsong from the Radio” from the story collection ‘The Souvenir Museum’ by Elizabeth McCracken

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Book Public: 'The Scrapbook' by Heather Clark

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Book Public: 'Homework' by Geoff Dyer

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Book Public: 'Endling' by Maria Reva

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Book Public: 'The Fate of Others' by Richard Bausch

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Book Public: 'Have Mercy on Us' by Lisa Cupolo

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Book Public: 'The Bright Years' by Sarah Damoff

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Book Public: 'Four Red Sweaters' by Lucy Adlington

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Book Public: 'The Imagined Life' by Andrew Porter

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Book Public: ‘Book of Potions’ by Lauren K. Watel

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Book Public: 'Brother Brontë' by Fernando A. Flores

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Book Public: ‘Our Beautiful Boys’ by Sameer Pandya

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Book Public: 'The Horse' by Willy Vlautin

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Book Public: 'We're Alone' by Edwidge Danticat

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Book Public: 'Back After This' by Linda Holmes

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Book Public: ‘Nesting’ by Roisín O’Donnell

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Book Public: 'The Umbrella Maker's Son' by Tod Lending

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Book Public: 'Selena: A Little Golden Book Biography'

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Book Public: Writing and art from the farmworker community in 'The Common'

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Book Public: 'Save Me, Stranger' by Erika Krouse

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Book Public: 'The Mourner's Bestiary' by Eiren Caffall

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Book Public: 'The Best Short Stories 2024': The O. Henry Prize Winners

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Book Public: 'Filmmaker's Journey' by Severo Perez

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Book Public: 'Traveling without Moving' by Taiyon J. Coleman

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Book Public: 'On James Baldwin' by Colm Tóibín

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Book Public: 'The Disappeared' by Rebecca J. Sanford

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Book Public: 'The Day's Hard Edge' by José Antonio Rodríguez

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Book Public: Hurricane stories

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Book Public: 'Getting to Know Death' by Gail Godwin

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Book Public: 'Poor Deer' by Claire Oshetsky

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Book Public: 'Longing for Connection' by Andrew Burstein

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Book Public: 'Sipsworth' by Simon Van Booy

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Book Public: 'Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow' by Steve Almond

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Book Public: San Antonio Book Festival has something for everyone

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Book Public: 'Half-Lives' by Lynn Schmeidler

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Book Public: ‘The Divorcées’ by Rowan Beaird

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Book Public: 'Wandering Stars' by Tommy Orange

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Book Public: Everyman's Library publishes 40th anniversary edition of 'The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros

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Book Public: 'Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story' by Leslie Jamison

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Book Public: 'The Road from Belhaven' by Margot Livesey

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Book Public: 'The Women' by Kristin Hannah

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Book Public: 'The Fetishist' by Katherine Min

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Book Public: Richard Blanco on his new book, 'Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems'

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Book Public: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s ‘All the Little Bird-Hearts’ is a novel that explores themes of motherhood, authenticity and autism

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Book Public: 'Small in Real Life' by Kelly Sather

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Book Public: 'The Madstone' by Elizabeth Crook

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Book Public: 'Ladies' Lunch' by Lore Segal

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Book Public: ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’ by James McBride

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Book Public: 'Somebody's Fool' by Richard Russo

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Book Public: ‘Vanishing Maps’ by Cristina García

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Book Public: Review of 'Home Reading Service' by Fabio Morábito

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‘The Wind Knows My Name’: Isabel Allende shows how history repeats itself in novel about two child refugees

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‘Good Night, Irene’: Luis Alberto Urrea’s historical novel based on his mother’s experiences in the Red Cross during World War II

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‘You Are Here’: Karin Lin-Greenberg’s debut novel chronicles a failing mall that connects a community

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‘A Living Remedy’: Nicole Chung’s memoir explores a daughter's grief and strength to survive

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‘The Disappeared’: Andrew Porter’s story collection features San Antonio backdrop

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‘The Kudzu Queen’: Mimi Herman’s historical novel is a timeless tale about family, fitting in, and holding fast to the truth

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The Lonely Voice: ‘With Reference to an Incident at a Bridge’ by William Maxwell

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‘Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter’: John Hendrickson’s poignant memoir demystifies this neurological disorder

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‘The Consequences’: Manuel Muñoz’s story collection is a tender telling of the complex lives of farmworkers and families

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‘Three Muses’: In Martha Anne Toll’s debut novel a Holocaust survivor manages the complex burdens of memory and love

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Book Public—Que Esperanzas: 'The Cape' by Dionne Irving

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The Lonely Voice: 'Dancing After Hours' by Andre Dubus

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The Lonely Voice: 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' by James Joyce

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The Lonely Voice: 'Blue in Chicago' by Bette Howland

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‘Still No Word from You’: Peter Orner’s memoir-in-essays is an homage to books and the reading life

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Book Public: Angie Cruz's novel is a poignant portrait of a strong immigrant woman

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Book Public: ‘Woman Without Shame': Sandra Cisneros' poetry collection celebrates life without shame

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'Math for the Self-Crippling': Ursula Villarreal Moura’s chapbook of flash fiction makes a big impression