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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Two Small Fiction Gems Explore Large Themes
An exploration of two novels: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan and The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings—Jhumpa Lahiri and Natalia Ginzburg
After I read Whereabouts, I picked up Happiness, As Such, by Ginzburg, a very different novel and yet, the tone, the observational...
OC Book Blog: 2021—Post-Pandemic Pairs
I am discovering novels that seem to go together – not so much in content, rather in style or thematic. ...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Burning” by Megha Mujumdar
This is one of the most hard to put down novels I’ve read, and that’s saying something, considering all the good fiction that’s been...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog | “Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth” by Benjamin Taylor
When it comes to the writer Philip Roth, there are two camps: those who dismiss him as a sex-obsessed east coast Jewish highbrow, and those...
