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Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

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Not My Sherlock

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Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s <em>The Book Thief</em>

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Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

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