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Jenny Erpenbeck

OC Book Blog: “The End of Days” by Jenny Erpenbeck

Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...

James Salter

Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter

A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft   James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....

Rachel Kushner

Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...

Michael Ondaatje

Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje

A modern master tells a melancholy tale of post-WWII Britain. By Randy Kraft   Everything we read about war is about the war –...

There There by Tommy Orange

OC Book Blog: “There There” by Tommy Orange

By Randy Kraft   Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...