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Richard Bruce Nugent Da Capo Press ($18) by Douglas Messerli If you prefer the pious potboilers of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker to the irreverent

Philip K. Dick Tor ($25.95 ) by Ryder W. Miller Before Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) became a successful science fiction writer, he wrote realistic fiction,

Olivier Rolin translated by Jane Kuntz Dalkey Archive ($12.95) by Levi Teal One enters Olivier Rolin’s Hotel Crystal through a narrow door with a brass knob, which

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