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Despite a recent loss, I do have some books for you to heed. You can take my word for it—in any event, it’s the only word I am capable of at this moment—that they are worth your attention.
  1. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
  2. William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories edited by Christopher Carduff
  3. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Richard Iton
  4. The Half-Known World: Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell
  5. Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth by Ben Rigby
  6. Leningrad: State of Siege by Michael Jones
  7. The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
  8. A Common Ordinary Murder by Donald Pfarrer
  9. The Little Book by Selden Edwards
  10. Crude Reflections/Cruda realidad: Oil, Ruin, and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak
  11. Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst
  12. Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
 —Robert Birnbaum, Jul. 28, 2008
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