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Best Novels on the Midwest: From Franzen to

Why does the literature of the Midwest not get the attention it deserves? The creation of a Kurt Vonnegut library spurred Anna Clark to come up with 13 essential novels of that mythic region.

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Last week was a good one for Kurt Vonnegut. A posthumous collection of stories came out— While Mortals Sleep, which includes 16 previously unpublished tales and a foreword by Dave Eggers that describes Vonnegut as the “hippie Mark Twain.”

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