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"It’s all well and good to (e.g.) snub Karl Ove Knausgaard, Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney, and Thomas Pynchon, but to do so without mounting a defense of their omission is leaving some really good content on the table." This! Thank you! And I'd especially love some more explanation about omissions when you consider the number of repeat authors on the list(Jesmyn Ward, Alice Munro, George Saunders, etc.)!

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1. I coincidentally read Kindred the same year as The Underground Railroad. I wouldn't describe it as trauma porn but it did serve to reinforce how darkly funny and unusual (in a good way) The Underground Railroad is.

2. The Skull! But also The Rock From The Sky. The turtle is just a perfect encapsulation of A Certain Type of Guy.

3. Justice for Louise Erdrich

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