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a few more thoughts on status & plot

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a. natasha joukovsky
May 14, 2023
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Hello dahlings,

Dashing off an unplanned follow-up to my previous newsletter on why we love stories about messy rich people, because I can’t stop thinking about it in light of the last two novels I read.

In one corner today, we have bonafide literary masterpiece The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 Booker-Prize-winning novel of 1980s decadence. I…

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