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\"crapalachia\"<\/a>Though the book doesn\u2019t come out until the middle of next month, I can\u2019t wait until then to say how much I liked Scott McClanahan\u2019s Crapalachia<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s about his youth in rural West Virginia, where he spent his formative years under the influence of his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. The book is subtitled \u201ca biography of a place,\u201d but it\u2019s more a biography of a handful of people, and Ruby and Nathan are easily its star characters: beguiling in their weirdness and utterly charming in their deep affection for each other and for Scott. His voice is wholly unaffected, and his account manages to be both comic and\u00a0unpretentiously sentimental.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0My worst reading habit is not reading too fast, or too slow, or stopping books in the middle, or right before the end (though I do all of those things). It\u2019s my persistent impulse to read books that reflect my mood\u2014an impulse that, if indulged often, reduces my reading list to a positively uncatholic range of authors and subjects. But one recent evening, my initial, \u201csafe\u201d pick (James\u2019s The Golden Bowl<\/i>) was thwarted by Genevi\u00e8ve Castr\u00e9e\u2019s Susceptible<\/em><\/a>, which, when spotted in a pile of neglected books, looked too intriguing to let alone. An autobiographical comic, the work is less like an illustrated diary and more like a scrapbook; it shows rather than tells, pasting together a series of vignettes to build a narrative of the author\u2019s troubled early life.\u00a0Castr\u00e9e\u2019s beautifully toned black-and-white drawings even read more like vintage photographs than they do sketches. The book\u2019s pervasive melancholy is still lingering with me, a reminder of why we really\u00a0read: to feel things besides our own emotions. \u2014Clare Fentress<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u00a0In a used bookstore, I stumbled upon a nondescript book, one Victor Canning<\/a>\u2019s A Delivery of Furies<\/em><\/a>. The sleeve was long lost and it had been rebound in a dull, faded salmon. Consequently, I knew nothing about the story but the title. Imagine John le Carr\u00e9 meets Hunter S. Thompson: murder, adventure, sabotage, sex, all embellished with tropical settings and stock characters, and in the same cynically blunt voice of Thompson\u2019s The Rum Diary<\/em>. Canning writes, \u201cIt was dark, no moon, but a sky so full of bright stars that seemed too close to the earth to be comfortable. One of those tropical nights which overdid everything, too hot, the air too thick with flower scents, and the fireflies around the oleander bushes too brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what it is—poetry, but cleverly disguised as drugstore fiction. So captivating you don\u2019t realize how delicately the sentences are strung together until the second time around. (I\u2019m currently rereading). Canning died in 1986 without leaving much of a legacy (I\u2019ve yet to meet another reader) despite publishing over fifty titles in a fifty-year period. His stories, it seems, didnt have the stqying power of the canon. But the point is, literary merit or no, this is why you\u2019re most likely go find me trolling used bookstores for mysterious, completely unfamiliar titles. \u2014Matthew Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other day, I picked up Eudora Welty\u2019s\u00a0One Writer’s Beginnings<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at a used bookstore. Welty\u2019s writing about her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi is wonderful and served to stir up some half-fossilized memories in me, but the real reason I bought the book is because it is pocket sized. Having recently readjusted to city living, I\u2019m reminded that mobility is key. It\u2019s freeing to simply stuff a book in your pocket and head out the door: every store, stoop, or subway seat becomes a possible place to read. \u2014Brenna Scheving<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caspar Henderson calls his The Book of Barely Imagined Beings<\/em><\/a> a \u201ctwenty-first-century bestiary,\u201d but it defies even that description. Inspired in part by Borges\u2019s Book of Imaginary Beings<\/i>, it is indeed a catalog of amazing animals, but it is so much more: a combination of natural history, human history, and philosophy, it is compulsively readable, both informative and thought provoking. \u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Though the book doesn\u2019t come out until the middle of next month, I can\u2019t wait until then to say how much I liked Scott McClanahan\u2019s Crapalachia. It\u2019s about his youth in rural West Virginia, where he spent his formative years under the influence of his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. 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