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Who wants to read it next?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Julia Barrett

Marilyn Monroe, the Biography, by Donald Spoto, kept me up all night. I finished it Monday. Couldn’t sleep after. Reading her biography was like watching a horror movie. I wanted to cry out- “No, don’t go in there! Turn around! … Continue reading →

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Sticky.

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Julia Barrett

Some things are just sticky, you know? Honey, syrup, melted chocolate, kids’ fingers. Or, on the other hand, genre fiction like Lawrence Block’s dark and stark yet luminous prose- which I rediscovered last year, or the disorientation of The Other … Continue reading →

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