60 Must-Read Books of the Summer
What are you in the mood to read this summer? This year boasts an unusual volume of stories exploring the thrilling and thorny stuff that makes us human. We think of them as books that make a difference—every one of them worth the plunge!
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A Loaded Gun
By Jerome Charyn
256 pages;
Bellevue Literary Press
Still obsessed with his subject years after writing the 2010 novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Charyn converts his preoccupation into a magnetic nonfiction reevaluation of the mystifying, radical, perhaps bisexual, and maybe greatest-ever American poet.
Published 06/13/2016
