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Bibliophoria: Brian Moore's Lies of Silence

Bibliophoria: Brian Moore's Lies of Silence

Late one night, the manager of a Belfast hotel receives an unexpected visit from the IRA. They’ve come, guns drawn, with an ultimatum: if Michael Dillon doesn’t smuggle a bomb into the hotel parking lot the next day—an act that will kill and maim dozens—the IRA will murder his wife.

Bibliophoria: Nick Gadd on Rebecca Solnit

Bibliophoria: Nick Gadd on Rebecca Solnit

“Rebecca Solnit taught me to walk. Not in the literal sense, obviously. But it was because of Solnit that I made walking a central part of my life.” —Nick Gadd

This installment of Bibliophoria features novelist and essayist Nick Gadd (of Melbourne Circle) on Rebecca Solnit’s wonderful books about walking and how they've altered his path.

Bibliophoria: Jami Attenberg's Saint Mazie

Bibliophoria: Jami Attenberg's Saint Mazie

There's something comforting yet electrifying about fiction that transforms the famous into flesh.

Joseph Mitchell first brought fame to Mazie Phillips in his 1940 New Yorker profile. Now, Jami Attenberg has given her a rich, complicated history.

Bibliophoria, or What to Read This Weekend: Patti Smith’s M Train

Bibliophoria, or What to Read This Weekend: Patti Smith’s M Train

“Why can’t things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down ‘Desolation Row.’ I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.”
Patti Smith, M Train

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