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John Altman is a musician and freelance writer living in New York City. A graduate of Harvard, he comes from an extended family of writers, including the novelists Karen Bender, Aimee Bender, and Robert Anthony Siegel.
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If you enjoyed:
The Spanish Game
Try:
A Gathering of Spies
by John Altman
William Brodrick, in a career change that reverses that of his character Father Anselm's, was an Augustinian friar before leaving in order to become a practicing barrister. (more)
If you enjoyed:
A Colder War
Try:
The 6th Lamentation
by William Brodrick
Ordinary Girls
by Jaquira Díaz
Reminiscent of Tara Westover's Educate and Roxane Gay's Hunger--a memoir that reads as electrically as a novel.
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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
A moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning caring for two children with remarkable abilities.
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From the author of
Calling Me Home
An emotionally raw and resonant story of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events.
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