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- Loads of local lit-related goodies all over the Web of late, so here are a...
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- By Catherine Friend. Da Capo, $24.
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- By Alec Foege. Faber & Faber, $25.
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- M.I.A.
- By Michael Allen Dymmoch. Thomas Dunne, $24.95.
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- The Hakawati
- By Rabih Alameddine. Knopf, $25.95.
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- The Girl on the Fridge
- By Etgar Keret. FSG, $12.
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- Machine
- By Peter Adolphsen. MacAdam/Cage, $15.
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