When Catalina goes into the kitchen to refill her calabash, Frances grabs the box of Thompson paperbacks and makes a run for Ray at the restaurant.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
There are bookshelves teeming with dog-eared paperbacks, imposing hardbacks, critical anthologies, story collections, art books; my writer is also a reader, and a voracious one at that.
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Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Where rookie pilots panicked in battle, Gabreski functioned like a robot, dispassionately following the instructions laid out in his military flight manuals.
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Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
Paper, cardboard boxes, and manuals.
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Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Sep. 2025
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