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Book Club, Beloved: Introduction
Toni Morrison died in 2019. When she did, she received as much acclaim as our culture ever affords novelists, these days. Speaking as someone who’s read…
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Freddie deBoer
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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Beverly Home"
At last, something like release. It’s the last story in the collection (and thus the end of this book club), and our goodbye to our narrator. True to…
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Freddie deBoer
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Book Club, Jesus' Son: Steady Hands at Seattle General
We’ll be very brief today because the story is itself, the shortest in a collection with several quite-short stories. (As I mentioned last week, I…
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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "The Other Man"
I’ve talked about stories in Jesus’ Son and whether they work as standalones or whether they need the structure of the book to work. “Dirty Wedding” was…
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Freddie deBoer
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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Dirty Wedding"
Several times in this book club, I’ve discussed the difference between stories in Jesus’ Son that feel like they can live on their own as short stories…
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Freddie deBoer
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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Emergency"
It’s interesting (to me if no one else) that “Emergency” is the first story in this collection that has inspired me to discuss my own drug use. We’re…
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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Work"
Our friend Fuckhead is definitely #Problematic, now taking part in a little casual domestic violence. The first-paragraph description of him and his…
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