Claudia Putnam: Writer: Poetry & Prose

Tag: great reads

  • Standout Reads of 2011

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    Claudia Putnam
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    Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact.   Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in…

  • Standout Reads of 2010

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    Not necessarily written this year, just the ones that popped for me of those I read. Fiction: Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada (a German couple find a way to resist the Nazis)  The Informers, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (the legacy of Nazi Germany tears apart a modern-day Bogota family)      Life and Fate, by…