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There are times when it feels as though voices from the short fiction section of the literary world are perpetually lamenting an ever-shrinking market for their genre, that publishers don't want to publish collections, that no one ever reads short stories. I promise that after this week, I will take a break from touting the latest digital shorts on-line project, but I just need to squeeze this one in. 'Cause it's awesome.

Curious about the rest of our editors' picks this month?
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Even though the Now Reading section isn't necessarily thematic (as opposed to our Essential Reading section), sometimes the commonalities on this editors and columnists list just arise like a filigreed bas relief. This month, a number of us happen to be reading books that weave together genres or narratives in a way that pushes (or in some cases dances around) a greater truth.
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Our editors and columnists share their recent forays into essays, Burma, the afterlife, migration, and Chinese poetry below. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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I'm reading 11/22/63, Stephen King's latest 850 page tome. I love it. It's a great book. It's on all the lists. Time travel. Characters. Dialogue. Blah, blah, blah. King needs no endorsement from me. Even if I could introduce one or two new readers to the "King of Horror," they would be but tiny grains of sand in his vast, literate empire. So why even bring it up in the Now Reading section of Literary Mama? It's not that the book I'm reading is any sort of a revelation. It's how I'm reading it.
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I write this Now Reading post with great reluctance. My daughter is sleeping, the fire is burning in the wood stove, and I had to drag myself away from Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay, the third installment in the Hunger Games trilogy. Yes, it's technically young adult. Yes, technically I'm an old adult with no young adult children, but sometimes it's really, really awesome to pretend to be one, especially when it means reading a fun, fast-paced sci-fi story with a dynamic female main character. For those of you who haven't yet taken the drug that is The Hunger Games, I offer you a gateway.
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