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Jim McCarthy
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
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My favorites include… My favorite books ever since high school have been SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE and SONG OF SOLOMON. Others I have loved of late (in no particular order): A WISH IN THE DARK – Christine Soontornvat THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio THE CITY WE BECAME – N. K. Jemisin WRITERS AND LOVERS – Lily King GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER – Bernardine Evaristo NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC – Kevin Wilson LUSTER – Raven Leilani SHUGGIE BAIN – Douglas Stuart JOAN IS OKAY – Weike Wang THE SENTENCE – Louise Erdrich TRUST – Hernan Diaz TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW – Gabrielle Zevin STAY TRUE – Hua Hsu Favorite Movies: Parasite Eighth Grade Boyhood Get Out The Favorite The Lobster Bring It On Clue Leaving Las Vegas All About Eve Rebecca Up Ratatouille Spirited Away Moonlight Mad Max: Fury Road Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Emily the Criminal Fire Island Bodies Bodies Bodies Cha Cha Real Smooth Good Luck to You Leo Grande Pearl The Woman King Barbarian Bros Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Favorite TV: Succession Insecure Abbott Elementary The Traitors Severance RuPaul’s Drag Race Top Chef BoJack Horseman
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