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Book Picks - The Golden Notebook

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published April 2, 2019 at 11:12 AM EDT
Book covers for the books listed below on this page

    James Conrad from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY joins us with this week's Book Picks.

List:
“Afternoon of a Faun” by James Lasdun
“Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster” by Adam Higginbotham
“Visiting Days: Poems” by Gretchen Primack -- event April 13th, 5pm
“What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance” by Carolyn Forché
“Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites” by Mary Giuliani
“Leading Men” by Christopher Castellani
“The Old Drift” by Namwali Serpell
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