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Jeff Kaplan 10/21/24 Jeff Kaplan 10/21/24

Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Park the car in post-racial identity politics Harvard Yard.”

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Jeff Kaplan 10/8/24 Jeff Kaplan 10/8/24

Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel

"Mantel does historical fiction right."

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Jeff Kaplan 10/1/24 Jeff Kaplan 10/1/24

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, by Saidiya Hartman

"Forgotten memories."

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Jeff Kaplan 9/12/24 Jeff Kaplan 9/12/24

Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward

"Fear the reaper."

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Jeff Kaplan 9/10/24 Jeff Kaplan 9/10/24

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

"Catchy, but with some wrong notes."

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Jeff Kaplan 9/8/24 Jeff Kaplan 9/8/24

How to be Both, by Ali Smith

"Double Image."

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Jeff Kaplan 9/7/24 Jeff Kaplan 9/7/24

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson

"Mission Impenetrable"

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Jeff Kaplan 8/3/24 Jeff Kaplan 8/3/24

A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf

“Still waiting, but maybe…”

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Jeff Kaplan 7/28/24 Jeff Kaplan 7/28/24

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Abenddämmerung.”

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Jeff Kaplan 7/20/24 Jeff Kaplan 7/20/24

Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday

“‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice.”

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Jeff Kaplan 7/10/24 Jeff Kaplan 7/10/24

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

“From darkness to light.”

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Jeff Kaplan 7/2/24 Jeff Kaplan 7/2/24

Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin

“A room for two please…but which two?”

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Jeff Kaplan 6/28/24 Jeff Kaplan 6/28/24

Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters

“More twists than Oliver…”

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Jeff Kaplan 6/23/24 Jeff Kaplan 6/23/24

Recent Reading List

“Books I’ve read in the past two years or so.”

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Jeff Kaplan 6/20/24 Jeff Kaplan 6/20/24

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday! by Kurt Vonnegut

“And so on…”

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Jeff Kaplan 6/15/24 Jeff Kaplan 6/15/24

Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

“Baldwin: Writing class 101.”

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Jeff Kaplan 6/9/24 Jeff Kaplan 6/9/24

Mortals, by Norman Rush

“The spy who loved poetry.”

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Jeff Kaplan 5/26/24 Jeff Kaplan 5/26/24

The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong

“The remains of the dinner.”

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Jeff Kaplan 5/20/24 Jeff Kaplan 5/20/24

Cloud Cuckoo Land, By Anthony Doerr

“Doerr is reliably mind-blowing.”

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