Scott Esposito has written about books for almost ten years. His work has appeared widely, including in the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, The Paris Review, and Publishers Weekly. He blogs on literature daily at Conversational Reading.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude transplanted to freezing Canada Michael Cru… more »
The sci-fi classic that predicted our world In 1982, an obscure sci-fi au… more »
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