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July 4
Laura Dave: "The Divorce Party"

June 27
Christopher Potter: "You Are Here"

June 20
Jeff Zaslow: "The Girls from Ames"

June 13
Marie Brenner: "Apples and Oranges"

June 6
Martha Sandweiss: "Passing Strange"

May 30
Tom Dean: "Under a Midland Sky"

May 23
Chrisina Aveness: "Living Beyond Organic"

May 16
Sandra Harper: "High Tea"

May 9
Rob Kirkpatrick: "1969"

May 2
Robin Ryan: "60 Seconds and You're Hired"

April 25
Frances Wilson: "The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth"

April 18
Ian Kelly: "Casanova"

April 11
C. Arthur Ellis: "Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum"

April 4
D.J. Taylor: "Bright Young People"

March 28
Jess Winfield: "My Name Is Will"

March 21
Barry Sears: "Toxic Fat"

March 14
Michael Welland: "Sand"

March 7
Ella March Chase: "The Virgin Queen's Daughter"

February 28
William Rodarmor: "France: A Traveler's Literary Companion"

February 21
Janis Bell: "Clean Well-lighted Sentences"

February 14
Ariel Sabar: "My Father's Paradise"

February 7
Sharon Waxman: "Loot"

January 31
Adam Nicholson: "Quarrel with the King"

January 24
Richard LeMieux: "Breakfast at Sally's"

January 17
Li-Young Lee: "Behind My Eyes"

January 10
Marcella Hazan: "Amarcord"

January 3
Michelle Karen: "Astrology for Enlightenment"

December 27
James O'Donnell: "The Ruin of the Roman Empire"

December 20
John Baxter: "Immovable Feast

December 13
Sarah Lyall: "The Anglo Files"

December 6
Edward Dolnick: "The Forger's Spell"

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November 29
David Lebedoff: "The Same Man"

November 22
Louis Bayard: "The Black Tower"

November 15
Hollis Gillespie: "Trailer Trashed"

November 8
James Tabor: "Forever On The Mountain"

November 1
Jessamyn Conrad: "What You Should Know About Politics, But Don't"

October 25
Kathleen Norris: "Acedia and Me"

October 18
Simon Baatz: "Fot the Thrill of It"

October 11
Patricia Kleindienst: "The Earth Knows My Name"

October 4
Brooks Carder: "The Laguna Beach Diet"

September 27
Bill Yenne: "Sitting Bull"

September 20
Ying Chang Compestine: "Revolution is Not a Dinner Party"

September 13
Tana French: "The Likeness"

September 6
Thomas Foster: "How to Read Novels Like a Professor"

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