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2025 Tournament of Books: Martyr! vs. Beautyland
Today’s matchup gives us a pair of weird literary novels, each weird in their own way and they were both books that I loved, so it made for a difficult choice. I think, though, that Akbar’s prose was just a touch more to my delight even if the coincidence central to the plot was maybe…
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2025 Tournament of Books: Great Expectations vs Beautyland
Today’s matchup includes a pair of very disparate books. Vinson Cunningham, a former Obama campaign worker turned New Yorker staff writer, wrote a novel that’s about his time on the Obama campaign without ever explicitly naming Obama or any of the other major figures in the campaign. Giving it the title Great Expectations certainly did nothing to…