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How to Write a Pain Book
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By
Lisa Levy
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The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked
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Julia Dahl: Crime Fiction Among the Pious
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By
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Lisa Levy
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By
Lisa Levy
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By
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By
Lisa Levy
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Lisa Levy
| September 23, 2016
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Lisa Levy
| September 13, 2016
In Defense of Trash
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Valley of the Dolls
to Bonkbusters
By
Lisa Levy
| August 25, 2016
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And Megan Abbott is Here to Prove It
By
Lisa Levy
| July 29, 2016
On the Pleasures of Pre-Internet Fandom
Lisa Levy Recalls the Intensity of Private Discovery
By
Lisa Levy
| July 27, 2016
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By
Lisa Levy
| June 17, 2016
We Need More First-Hand Books About Urban Poverty
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Dreamland
,
Evicted
, and
The Cook Up
By
Lisa Levy
| May 19, 2016
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By
Lisa Levy
| May 2, 2016
Only Murders in the Building
Heads to London Next Season
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Olivia Rutigliano
The Texas Murder Mystery That Launched Skip Hollandsworth Into a Life of Crime Writing
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by
Skip Hollandsworth
We All Make Deals With the Devil: Five Mysteries that Feature Faustian Bargains
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by
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"