‘The Decameron’ Review: Pretty People in Petticoats Getting Nasty

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‘The Decameron’ Review: Pretty People in Petticoats Getting Nasty

I could (and perhaps should) reread Elizabeth Hardwicks Sleepless Nights every year that remains to me.the time her father was imprisoned in South Africa—Deborah Levy treats every morsel of her living autobiography (Things I Dont Want to Know.a zine-like concoction in which Mary Gaitskill intersperses pieces of her older and current fiction and nonfiction and.

‘The Decameron’ Review: Pretty People in Petticoats Getting Nasty

Belarusian oral historian Svetlana Alexievich sits at kitchen tables across the former USSR and records peoples stories.I started reading my mothers copy of Pachinko—a full-on Sweeping Family Saga of a Korean immigrant family in Japan—and finished a library copy.

‘The Decameron’ Review: Pretty People in Petticoats Getting Nasty

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