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Reading Around The Map: Kansas

Armchair travel can take you far and wide. I have read books set in the jungles of the Congo, the mountains of Bhutan, and the languid islands of the South Pacific all without ever having left my apartment. Not all armchair travel is exotic. There can be amazing stories set just about anywhere. All itContinue reading “Reading Around The Map: Kansas”

Emily the Strange

I love to be transported by a novel, both to foreign places and unfamiliar psychological spaces. Alexis Schaitkin’s Saint X does both. An affluent couple take their two daughters for a New Year’s vacation to a tropical island. The older girl, a Princeton first year, attracts the attention of many men, both locals and visitorsContinue reading “Emily the Strange”