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Lost love, adventure, and party spirits

June 22, 2025 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 4 Comments

You'll find novels, essays, and more here, including Jess Walter's delightful new fiction and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers highly anticipated first nonfiction. Six books in all, five published in June, an unusual mix.

The book list on the napkin

May 23, 2014 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 5 Comments

This blog post could've been titled "the power of book cover illustrations" or "why carrying a print book (versus an e-reader) matters". That's because it shows what happens when people see the book you're reading.

Where’s the agreement? 2012 best books

December 10, 2012 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

How many lists of best books of 2012 can a reader take? They're spewing from media outlets like water from a broken hydrant. In a desperate measure to find some sanity in the mania, I cross-referenced four fiction lists to see which books they listed in common. The results are these five.

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