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Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 136: A Red Death by Walter Mosley

When the IRS comes knocking at your door looking for back taxes, it will put you in an untenable position that provides no easy way out. Easy Rawlins finds himself in such a situation in the novel, A Red Death. A Red Death is the second novel in the Easy Rawlins...

Marion’s Eight All-Time Favorite Short Stories (Part Two)

  I recently posted part one of my all-time favorite short stories. Here is the second half of my list and represents the short fiction that has stayed with me as a reader. 5) Galapago by Kali Fajardo-Anstine: This story comes from the excellent short story...

Rereading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

"The rhetoric of a sermon was one thing; his wife's grim reality was another. Civilizations did not vanish smoothly and easefully; empires did not set like suns: empires collapsed in chaos and violence. Real people got pushed around, beaten up, robbed, made destitute....

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