Editor's Reading List

by Mark Mirsky

Second fifteen titles from the Editor's list: Babel, Isaac - Collected Short Stories Bachman, Ingeborg - The Thirtieth Year Baldwin, James - Go Tell It On the Mountain Barth, John - End of the Road Barth, John- Lost in the...

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Editor's Reading List

by Mark Mirsky

The first 15 titles from Editor Mark Jay Mirsky's Reading List: Aciman, Andre - Out of Egypt (Riverhead Books) Astrov, Margot - The Winged Serpent (American. Indian Prose and Poetry) Achebe, Chinua - No Longer at Ease Achebe, Chinua -...

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Brazelton, Casares, Chace, Deresh, Dobozy, Duraj, England, Frisch, Gansworth, Goodman, Leslie, Mirsky, Mullins, Passero, Spargo, Sprow, Stroud, Terry

Cover Art: Untitled (Train), c1954
Crayon and pencil on pieced paper, 40 x 30 in
— Martin Ramirez

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