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SEARCHING FOR GREY MATTER: Stuff you need to be reading
by Jeff VanderMeer Question: Name three books and three short stories that everybody should read? BOOKS Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart (Nov. 15 release)—A brilliant first novel set in the middle ages and featuring two of the craziest rogues in all of ...
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