by Elissa Schappell
Recommended by Harlan Coben
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
Elissa Schappell, a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandoras box of feeling in a single line (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map Americas shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Harlan Coben
“Today's book recommendations are short story collections. My favorite three from the past decade: Blueprints for Better Girls by @ElissaSchappell You Think It, I'll Say It by @csittenfeld Thunderstruck and Other Stories by @elizmccracken”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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