Tag: stephan krause
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2024 Tournament of Books: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store vs Blackouts/The Bee Sting
And the final match-up of the Tournament of Books. I used to think that the judgments and reviews were done in real time, judges in later rounds furiously working their way through the books to be sure they were able and hoping that the book they’d left at the bottom of the stack of potential…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Chain-Gang All-Stars vs Brainwyrms
I first encountered Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing in his short story collection Friday Black. The first story in the collection, “The Finkelstein 5” blew me away so much that when I finished reading it in the back seat of a Lyft in January 2019, I wanted to tell the driver that he needed to pull over…