Lara Tupper (laratupper.com) is the author of A Thousand and One Nights, a novel about cruise-ship singers. Like Hemingway, she writes six-word tales. (Please see Smith magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak.) Unlike Hemingway, she has a lengthy commute.

• September 2009: Review of Jan Kjærstad’s The Discoverer
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  February 2009: Review of Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets
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  January 2008: Review of Pat Barker’s Life Class
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  March 2007: Review of Mischa Berlinski’s Fieldwork
• August 2006: Review of Michelle Wildgen’s You’re Not You
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  June/July 2006: Review of Rachel Sherman’s The First Hurt
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  May 2006: Review of Kim Ponders’s The Art of Uncontrolled Flight
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  November 2005: Review of Bill Roorbach’s Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
• September 2005: Review of David Allan Cates’s X Out of Wonderland: A Saga
• August 2005: Review of Ginger Strand’s Flight