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By the Book: Jason Mott (2025)

NYT By the Book column (2025-08-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954 · Buy on Amazon
"in my opinion, it's one of the most complex studies of human nature and the tendencies of societal forces ever written."
Cover of Grendel
John Gardner · Buy on Amazon
William Melvin Kelley · Buy on Amazon
"Its tone and technique could easily be defined as magical realism and, obviously, given the themes of "People Like Us," it was both encouraging and saddening to realize just how long this style of fiction has been used to explore the idea of leaving a land that perpetually tells you that you are not equally a part of its being or destiny."
Steven Sherrill · Buy on Amazon
"It's heartbreaking and beautiful and magical all at once."
Barry Windsor-Smith · Buy on Amazon
""Monsters" is his magnum opus. I hope I get to meet him someday."
Cover of The Nicomachean Ethics

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