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RISK!

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If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK!...

Joyce Carol Oates recommended Version Control in Books (curated)

Version Control

Dexter Palmer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.7

(3 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"Version Control is perhaps the strangest fictional work of appropriated voices and subjects. It’s set in a surreal near future — or several near futures — as well as in several pasts. Though issues of race play virtually no role in the stories, one character, an African-American physicist, recalls dropping out of a writing course because the professor thought he should be mining his heritage instead of inventing science fiction."

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David Cross recommended Matewan: A Luta Final (1987) in Movies (curated)

Matewan: A Luta Final (1987)

1987 | Drama

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Movie Favorite

"This movie (like, Badlands a movie that’s not on this particular list) is almost perfect. Not a wasted shot, piece of dialogue, moment, or frame. John Sayles has made some amazing movies but this is my favorite of his. A beautiful, forceful movie that tells a dozen different stories wrapped around one specific, true pivotal moment in American history. And every single actor is perfect and perfectly cast."

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Emily Mortimer recommended The Amazing Bone in Books (curated)

The Amazing Bone

William Steig | 2011 | Children, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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"Steig wrote and illustrated the best American children’s books. I love the humor, sophistication and pure romantic sweetness of his drawings and stories. His protagonists (in this case a pig called Pearl and her magical bone,) all still manage to keep hold of a sense of wonder and longing in a frightening world. They are romantic dreamers longing for more. I have loved reading them to my kids."

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