21 Books for Your Summer Reading List
Calculating capitalists, lunching ladies, fractured families
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Joe Gould's Teeth
By Jill Lepore
256 pages;
Knopf
The celebrated essayist unearths the scribbles, dead ends, letters and tragic history of a literary lunatic who claimed to be writing the longest book of all time.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 05/15/2016