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On the Level
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On the Level

Mark Wagstaff’s new novel, On the Level, crashes the Jason Bourne films into Catcher in the Rye. Non-stop intrigue drives a coming-of-age story in which protagonist Riz Montgomery is both an unforgettably troubled, smart, and passionate fifteen-year-old and a seasoned, mysterious older woman narrating from a distant place scented by tequila and motorcycle fuel.
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Furnace Creek
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Furnace Creek

Furnace Creek retells the classic bildungsroman Great Expectations, exchanging Victorian England for 1960s America, arguably one of the most turbulent decades in social history.
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Category Unknown

Category Unknown by Koushik Banerjea is a dense and ambitious book that continues the conversation relaunched by the racial reckoning of 2020, "and reminds us that the conversation isn't the least bit new."
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Two Novels that Strike Close to Home: On Finding Oneself in a Book

Geoffrey Dutton looks at the "book-within-a-book" literary device, as used in the 2015 novel Disclaimer— and his upcoming novel Her Own Devices.
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The Regular
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The Philosophy of Marvin Goodspeed

The Regular, the new novel by Dave Buckhout, is a philosophical novel, and its main protagonist, Marvin Goodspeed, is a philosopher. That said, what is the philosophy of this modern day southern Cynic? And what, ultimately, is the book’s (and Buckhout’s) take on him?
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The Serpent Papers
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The Serpent Papers

The Serpent Papers is about the completion of Joseph Bell’s soul. This battle is fought within and without, and the outcome determines whether his soul lives or dies.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing

To praise Jesmyn Ward’s award-winning lyrical novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, is to share how it makes the reader feel, how it evokes deep emotions, how it compels us to question…
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The Great Alone
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The Great Alone

Rarely has the setting played as important a role in a novel as Alaska does in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. It becomes a towering character throughout the novel,…
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Where Reasons End
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Defying Death with Words: On Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End

Where would reasons end? The Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said in an interview: “I don’t think reason has anything to do with parent-children relationships, not at all. Perhaps from…
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Rico Stays

Rico Stays is the final novel in Ed Duncan’s Pigeon-Blood Red trilogy. As he did in the other two books in the series, Pigeon-Blood Red and The Last Straw, Duncan…
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Originally created as a Featured Writers section on bookscover2cover, we decided that writers and poets needed their own site. Thus, The Write Launch, a subsidiary of bookscover2cover, LLC, was born. The Write Launch is a monthly literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by selected writers and poets. Visit thewritelaunch.com and read original work by talented writers and poets from around the world.
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