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Rafael Frumkin
Rafael Frumkin is the author of THE COMEDOWN (2018), CONFIDENCE (2023) and BUGSY (2024). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Granta, Guernica, Hazlitt, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Paris Review Daily, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. He is a professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Deliver Me (2024)
Malin Persson Giolito
"Like the Baltimore of The Wire, the Stockholm of Malin Persson Giolito's Deliver Me is revealed to be more than just a hostile concrete backdrop for the age-old crusade of 'good' against 'evil': instead, it's a vast and complex network of familial care and interdependence, of best intentions stymied by judicial bureaucracy, of fear-based panopticons and manufactured scarcity, of the various limitations and empowerments conferred by race, class, and gender. Most importantly, Deliver Me is the story of kids who never got to be kids, to whom love and support is rarely extended on the societal level. Combining the legal savvy of a Grisham thriller with the big-hearted social realism of a Dickens novel, this book is a passionate call for change that ought to be heeded."
Your Utopia (2024)
Bora Chung
"Bora Chung has proven once again that she is an undeniable maestro of the uncanny, grotesque, and posthuman. Only a consummate speculative allegorist could write a collection that functions as so haunting a mirror of our modern world, reminding us all the while that the politely deranged cannibals and lovesick AIs and beleaguered alien wives we see reflected in that mirror are really just versions of ourselves."
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