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Max Porter
Literary takeaways from the 2025 film festival circuit.
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Phoebe Hamilton Jones
| April 14, 2021
The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
Or, 50 Afternoons Well Spent
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Emily Temple
| May 11, 2020
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