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Our Secret Life In The Movies
Our Secret Life In The Movies by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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