fiction

  • I tried to find a song or video the summed up the tone of Jacob Mendelsohn’s book without the religious assumptions but Godspell’s “Day by Day” captures the daily conflicts of his characters most perfectly. I spent my summer getting to know Wilson Vincent (who was once accused of a terrible crime), Laurie (who used

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  • You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane My rating: 4 of 5 stars I kept hearing Alison Brie’s character on Community, Annie, as I read the stories in this book. There is this purposeful superficial quality to the tone of voice in the writing — a wide-eyed dreamy “detachedness” –that belies the

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