This is the seventeenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series
[http://bookcritics.org/blog/category/second-thoughts], curated by
Daniel Akst. More about this series, ...
The right book, it’s said, can change your life. Some books can
alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a
perspective they may never have considered be...
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On the cover of Pure Act, Robert Lax sits in a barren room, long legs
crossed, a cat held firmly on his lap. From the moment I saw that
striking image, I admired it, filled wi...
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Michael N. McGregor's Pure Act is a contradictory portrait of the
minimalist poet. by Suzette Smith
ON THE cover OF PURE ACT, Robert Lax sits in a barren room, long legs
cr...
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Waiting... is a prose book by Noura Ghazi Safadi, a Syrian human
rights lawyer, born in Damascus in 1981, written to her husband Bassel
Khartabil Safadi over a three year peri...
Portland book-people share the best things they read in 2015. by
Megan Burbank
BECAUSE I AM NOSY and curious to a fault, one of the best parts of my
job is asking Portland ...
The Amuse Bouche Collection
A Little Lit-Fest
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