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Back to the Future Is Female!

BERNARD MALAMUD: NOVELS AND STORIES OF THE 1970s & 80s is out today, 3/28! Collecting three novels, 13 stories, and several hard-to-find autobiographical writings, it caps LOA’s three-volume edition of one of America’s greatest mythmakers and storytellers.
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The Forest Cathedral, an environmental adventure where you play as Rachel Carson
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“A clear voice tends to be contagious.” Biography of X author Catherine Lacey on the mysteries of influence
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“St. Clair Flats,” Constance Fenimore Woolson

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Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories LOA N°338
Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 LOA N°364
Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s LOA N°363
Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy LOA N°359
The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women

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Writer of the Week Flannery O'Connor
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