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Dead Man’s Float

by Matt Sutherland

The fix is in: we are hopeless Jim Harrison fans, and his recent death moved our reverence beyond reason—he alone spoke our Mother Tongue. In a forty-plus year career, Harrison authored thirty-six books, most of them collections of... Read More

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Orphans

by Matt Sutherland

From the founder of CavanKerry Press, this delightful memoir in verse bears witness to a complicated family history of Ireland’s Troubles, devout Catholicism, fierce maternal strength, aging, death, bitterness, and love. That Joan... Read More

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100 Chinese Silences

by Matt Sutherland

All nature of tired, absurd stereotypes of China and her people maintain a hold on the minds of most Americans, even as China’s superpower ascendancy has dominated headlines for some twenty-five years. With weaponized pen, Timothy Yu... Read More

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Fresh Fish

by Rachel Jagareski

New England cuisine and its piscine bounty are the stars of this outdoorsy new cookbook by acclaimed cookbook author Jennifer Trainer Thompson. At least half of the profusion of color photographs are shot by the shore, and one can almost... Read More

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The Power of Pulses

by Rachel Jagareski

As much a garden book as it is a book to cook from, "The Power of Pulses" is a lively collaboration between seedsman Dan Jason and foodie siblings Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne. Published in celebration of the United... Read More

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