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Carrie Brownstein recommended Just Kids in Books (curated)

 
Just Kids
Just Kids
Patti Smith | 2014 | Biography
8.3 (4 Ratings)
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"Her writing has always seemed to transcend her music. It exists in the same world, but it also can be divorced from it and you can just read her books and think, Who is this fascinating writer?"

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Alan Hollinghurst recommended The Blue Flower in Books (curated)

 
The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower
2.0 (1 Ratings)
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"The beautiful and concentrated final masterpiece of an utterly original writer, set in early 19th-century Germany. Fitzgerald pays us the compliment of trusting our intelligence and counting on our close attention, which will be overwhelmingly rewarded."

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Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle, #4)
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"Because she taught me everything about matching devastation with economy. The entire future of Caribbean prose is mapped out in this collection of stories, and I don’t know a single Caribbean writer who doesn’t reread it often."

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