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A Book For Ants: Bite-Sized Reviews of Snack-Sized Books

Bram Presser

All things novella from a tragic of the form

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    Scruffy scrivener. Semi-reformed punk rocker. Lapsed criminal lawyer. Novella obsessive. Dad. Author of The Book of Dirt, winner of three NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Voss Award, National Jewish Book Award (USA) He/him. Living in Naarm.

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