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Candy Labor
Working shoulder to shoulder and seeing each other's secrets.
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Alexander Sorondo
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The Isaacson Spectrum
Plus: "The Adventure of Silver Blaze!"
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Alexander Sorondo
1
Barbara's Toothbrush
A conundrum.
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Alexander Sorondo
5
Old Age on the Page
Given the release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book about Biden being too old for office, here are some better better books about getting ancient.
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Alexander Sorondo
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Reading David Remnick and "Ending Up Here"
For the past couple weeks, while writing a profile of novelist William T.
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Alexander Sorondo
My Book "Cubafruit" is Available for Pre-Order
I wrote a novel in 2022 that won the attention, commitment, labors of an agent, suffered a whole bunch of editing, and then a tormented yearlong process…
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Alexander Sorondo
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Finally Reading Stephen King's Banned School-shooting Novel, 50 Years Later
The novel RAGE, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, has become a point of conversation about an artist's responsibility for the…
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Alexander Sorondo
The paperback copy of "More Scary Stories" I stole from Mrs. Alvin in 2001
I’ve sold half my library piecemeal through eBay in the past two years but right now during spooky season I keep going to the 700ish volumes left1 and…
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Alexander Sorondo
Sunday Books: Mario Puzo, Thomas Harris, and a Glimpse at the Week in Politics
News items of note:
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Alexander Sorondo
Talking More About Biden's Debate Because Joy is for Cowards
The view from Biden's campaign disaster, one week later.
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Alexander Sorondo
YouTuber Chris Via Talks the New Bookchat
What Gore Vidal called "the bookchat world" is a fractured thing in 2024, but whatever its modern shape might be, Chris Via's multi-hour video essays…
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Alexander Sorondo
Loving Books So Much I'm Ill-suited to Sell Them
Side-hustling with an eBay store, trying to find books to stock its shelves, turns out the ones worth selling are also the ones worth keeping.
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Alexander Sorondo
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