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One and Done

One and Done: Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter

By Eric Beetner

August 25, 2016

I picked up a strange book called The Dog Fighter without any prior knowledge of the author. This was in 2004, and the high praise this debut novel was getting intrigued me enough to give it a shot. One of the hooks was that the writer used no punctuation beyond periods and question marks. No…

One and Done: Vern E. Smith, The Jones Men

By Eric Beetner

July 21, 2016

The Jones Men was a thrilling novel to discover. A lost “cult” novel from the 1970s, written by veteran journalist Vern E. Smith, it is a story of the drug trade on the streets of Detroit, and it absolutely blew me away when I read it forty years after its initial publication. The novel crackles…

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