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Take a Girl Like You By Kingsley Amis New York Review Books, 2015 317 pages, $15.95 Reviewed by George Salis Documented as a personal favorite of Kingsley Amis, Take a Girl Like You, originally published in 1960, is peopled with...
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Wake By AT Grant Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015 264 pages, $13.95 Reviewed by George Salis In his essay, “Blindness,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote that James Joyce mastered the near-infinite language of English, that “he knew all the...
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Happy Are The Happy By Yasmina Reza Translated by John Cullen Other Press, 2015 160 pages, $14.42 Reviewed by George Salis Symbolism is the engine of fiction, albeit subconsciously. The symbols tend to arise without the writer’s...
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In the Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown Press 53, 2014 160 pages, $14.95 Review by George Salis Taylor Brown’s debut collection of twelve stories presents us with characters that are subtly yet majorly deficient. They...
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