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      <image:caption>by George Saunders “Back in novel form, Saunders delivers his unique blend of clever and compassionate metaphysical satire that has secured his place among America's best modern writers. Small but mighty, Vigil is a masterclass in empathy and a tender rumination on Life's Big Questions.” - Chris</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-08</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Clay McLeod Chapman will meet, greet, and sign books at Transom Bookshop on Saturday, October 25th, at 12pm ET.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-15</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-03</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/spring-2025</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-16</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-16</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy</image:title>
      <image:caption>“An absolutely charming, warm, and life-affirming story about a small community coming together to find meaning in the smallest things. Beautifully written, stocking-sized, and exactly the kind of book we all need this holiday season.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - This Other Eden by Paul Harding</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Ringing with truth and vitality, Pulitzer-winner Paul Harding's slim-but-profound novel illuminates a small, dark, forgotten corner of American history, where freedom, beauty, and cruelty collide spectacularly and tragically.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song</image:title>
      <image:caption>“The Night Ends with Fire follows Meilin's journey in the Three Kingdoms' military, having disguised herself as a man and enlisted to escape her oppressive father. In this stunning retelling of the legend of Mulan, K.X. Song examines the scope of what it means to be at war—with one's country, with one's inner demons, and more.” - Michael</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - Blackouts by Justin Torres</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A book that is structurally and visually unique, Blackouts chronicles the friendship between two queer men of different generations. Justin Torres beautifully displays the duo's often divergent perspectives on their community's history.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner</image:title>
      <image:caption>“When American-dream poster child Carl Fletcher is violently kidnapped and held hostage for six days in 1980, his family is forever changed. Long Island Compromise is a thrilling saga spanning decades about wealth, greed, the ego of legacy and the comedic dread that comes with being part of a dysfunctional family.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Gilda, an aimless and chronically anxious atheist who is obsessed with death, finds herself working as a church receptionist where she quickly becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding her predecessor’s death. Everyone in this Room… is a funny, weird, beautiful reminder of what makes life worth living.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Nurse Leslie Bruin arrives at his assigned rural township to find a hateful congregation hellbent on making ‘mannish women’ like him and Stevie, an unruly local, behave. And the rumors of a sinister force emanating from the woods are probably fake...right? A glorious, gut-wrenching novella set in 1920s Appalachia, The Woods All Black lays bare how prejudice, power, and survival make monsters of us all.”</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks: Best of 2024 - American Rapture by CJ Leede</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Sophie, a devout Catholic high schooler, is finding it pretty difficult to stay pure amidst the ongoing plague that drives people mad with lust. Gripping, hysterical, and perfectly perverse, American Rapture deftly chronicles a uniquely American apocalypse with CJ Leede's trademark wit.”</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - GUEST BOOKSELLER #1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Luis Paredes (of Dobbs Ferry!) is the author of dark fantasy, horror, and weird fiction. His latest novel, Headhunters, is a delightfully unhinged mix of supernatural dark fantasy and charming coming-of-age story. Come meet Luis at Transom on Friday October 18, 2024, at 2p.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - GUEST BOOKSELLER #2</image:title>
      <image:caption>Keith Rosson is the author of many novels and short stories in the thriller, horror, and crime fiction genres. His latest are FEVER HOUSE and THE DEVIL BY NAME, a pair of gritty urban crime thrillers that take a nasty supernatural turn.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - GUEST BOOKSELLER #3</image:title>
      <image:caption>Clay McLeod Chapman is the hardest-working writer in the horror game. He’s the author of ten(?) novels and countless short stories, plus graphic novels &amp; comics, scripts &amp; screenplays, as well as two decades of monologues, and is widely regarded as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A pitch-perfect gothic suspense novel in the tradition of Mary Shelly and Shirley Jackson. Complete with a creeping sense of dread, invisible looming threats, suspicious characters, and Tokarczuk’s trademark folk horror. My favorite book of the season—maybe of the year.” - Chris</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - The Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie</image:title>
      <image:caption>“When a game of bobbing for apples at a Halloween party ends in murder, detective Hercule Poirot steps in. Teamed with author Ariadne Oliver, they must solve not one, but two crimes in this atmospheric and twisty fall classic.” - Michael</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - Sign Here by Claudia Lux</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Peyote Trip works in Hell...literally. He's inches away from a big promotion, all he has to do is get one last member of an enormously wealthy and powerful family to sell their soul. Equal parts horror, mystery and comedy, Claudia Lux's debut novel is a one-of-a-kind thrill ride from start to finish.” - Cara</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!) - Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Graveyard Shift follows five chronic insomniacs over the course of one increasingly fraught, hallucinogenic evening. As our protagonists spiral ever-closer to the center of a mysterious crime witnessed by moonlight, they must grapple with its disturbingly personal implications.” - Sierra</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/august-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks August 2024 - Toward Eternity by Anton Hur</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Best known for his translations of South Korean speculative fiction, Hur’s debut novel is a wildly imaginative sci-fi saga that (although a slim 250 pages) spans not just generations, but entire species. While evoking classic (Asimov) and contemporary (VanderMeer) sci-fi traditions, Hur’s novel is startlingly original.” - Chris</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks August 2024 - The Coin by Yasmin Zaher</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A Middle Eastern émigré lands in New York City, attempting to reconcile her traumatic past via unorthodox teaching methods at an underprivileged school—which kicks off a pyramid scheme hawking Berkin bags. Smart and clever, The Coin offers a unique and humorous perspective on the ironies of achieving the American Dream.” - Michael</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks August 2024 - The Wedding People by Alison Espach</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Phoebe arrives at a picture perfect resort in Newport with a grim intent. But she befriends the eccentric bride-to-be and becomes fully engulfed in the wedding drama. Funny, poignant, and ultimately filled with hope, The Wedding People is a deeply human story about finding solace in the most unexpected places and people.” - Cara</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks August 2024 - Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash</image:title>
      <image:caption>“When her hippie parents are put on trial for Satan worship in the early '90s, thirteen-year-old Lacey Bond contends with her own morality amid a system that utterly fails her. With an unflinching eye trained on love, loyalty, and carnage, this is a brilliant exploration of an embittered child's fraught path to freedom.” - Sierra</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/hilarity-and-heartbreak-english-experience</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-07-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fresh out in paperback this week (July 23), The English Experience is Julie’s third book in the Dear Committee series, and was lauded “heartbreaking and hilarious” by Richard Russo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stop by Transom this week (Jul 22, 2024) to see Julie’s novels alongisde her hand-picked ‘comps’.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/july-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks July 2024 - Clear by Carys Davies</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Sent by the church to evict a recluse from a remote Scottish island in 1843, a priest is injured and must trust this stranger, with whom he shares not even language. CLEAR is a tense, lyrical, and redemptive story, perfect for fans of Claire Keegan.” - Chris</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks July 2024 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A missing child at a 1970s summer camp in upstate New York is the catalyst for the uncovering of past secrets in the latest mystery from Liz Moore (“Long Bright River”). Through alternating perspectives and timelines, Moore brilliantly explores themes of class, parenting, gender roles and humans' connections to the Earth.” - Michael</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks July 2024 - The Material by Camille Bordas</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A gripping story that takes place over one momentous day for the students and professors of Chicago's prestigious MFA program for stand-up comedy. Funny, dark and astoundingly perceptive, The Material reminds us we can find levity in our darkest moments.” - Cara</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks July 2024 - Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin</image:title>
      <image:caption>“When Beth and Fran aren't hunting down feral, plague-ridden cis men and harvesting their organs for estrogen, they're barely avoiding the deadly TERFs infiltrating New England. At times harrowing and hysterical, Manhunt is a brilliant ode to queer resilience in all its bloody, sappy glory.” - Sierra</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/june-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks June 2024 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker</image:title>
      <image:caption>“I have not been this deeply moved by a book in a very long time. Fully expecting a quick, easy thriller, I instead got a gripping saga about a Rust-Belt town forever changed by a shocking crime. Fans of Demon Copperhead will fall in love with the heartfelt, hopeful, and surprisingly humorous characters and richly textured setting.” - Chris</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks June 2024 - Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Silas Weir—the chronically insecure and increasingly powerful ‘father of gyno-psychology’—performs gruesome experiments on women in the New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics. Based on authentic historical documents from the 19th century, Butcher is a harrowing account of systemic cruelty, human endurance, and their lingering effects on today's political landscape.” - Sierra</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks June 2024 - Good Material by Dolly Alderton</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Andy, a not quite up-and-coming stand-up comedian, is blindsided when Jen, the love of his life, ends their relationship. Dolly Alderton tells a clever, painfully relatable story about the very different sides of a break up and the hilariously unhinged things we do to mend our broken hearts.” - Cara</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks June 2024 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager</image:title>
      <image:caption>“A backyard campout gone wrong is the setting for Riley Sager's "Middle of the Night;" a perfect summer thriller. Upon returning to this childhood home, Ethan Marsh keeps seeing indications his friend Billy, who disappeared 20 years prior, may still be alive. That, or, something supernatural is at play . . .” - Michael</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/may-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks May 2024 - THE HUSBANDS by Holly Gramazio</image:title>
      <image:caption>A hilarious, time-bending story about a woman who comes home one night to an endless supply of husbands in her attic. Equal parts funny and thoughtful, The Husbands is an astute commentary on society’s obsession with abundance and what happiness really looks like.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks May 2024 - SOCIOPATH, a memoir by Patric Gagne</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pulling back the curtain on an under-researched and often misunderstood population, this fascinating memoir deftly balances Gagne’s journey in coming to terms with her own diagnosis as well as offering accessible psychological explanations, all in the name of humanity and de-stigmatization.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks May 2024 - SIPSWORTH by Simon Van Booy</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the most charming, endearing, and outright fun books I’ve read in ages, Sipsworth tells the story of an elderly woman who’s all but given up on life…until she meets an imperiled little mouse who renews her purpose. Adorable without being cheesy, and literary without being heavy-handed, you’ll soon be looking to gift copies of Sipsworth to all your friends.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks May 2024 - PIGLET by Lottie Hazell</image:title>
      <image:caption>Piglet has worked hard to fit into the life she always dreamed of, and she spends her days molding herself into the perfect bride-to-be. That is, until her fiancé confesses to a betrayal that threatens to upend her carefully honed self-restraint—and then all she can think about is her hunger, all she can do is eat until she feels ill. Florid, enticing, and ultimately gratifying, Piglet asks us how much of ourselves we're willing to sacrifice to deny what we're ashamed to want.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs-april-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-05-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks April 2024 - THE FURY by Alex Michaelides</image:title>
      <image:caption>In true Alex Michaelides fashion (The Silent Patient, The Maidens), The Fury is a propulsive murder mystery told by an eccentric and deeply unreliable narrator. Set on a beautiful island in Greece, a group of friends, all with axes to grind, will uncover secrets that will change their lives forever.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks April 2024 - THE OTHER VALLEY by Scott Alexander Howard</image:title>
      <image:caption>What if you could cross your town’s border and see your community twenty years from now? Or, cross over on the other side of town and see long-departed loved ones twenty years in the past? Scott Alexander Howard’s remarkable debut novel The Other Valley examines the moral and practical implications of a society where select citizens are the arbiter of who can and cannot cross over in time.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks April 2024 - GLORIOUS EXPLOITS by Ferdia Lennon</image:title>
      <image:caption>With heart and humor in ample and equal measure, rife with moments of real gut-wrenching drama and an unflappable sense of adventure, Glorious Exploits is ancient-historical fiction with the voice of a humorous contemporary satire, as if Circe were covered by Roddy Doyle.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks April 2024 - HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel</image:title>
      <image:caption>Visceral, astute, and delightfully intimate, Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot follows a bracket of eight teenage girls as they fight in hopes of being crowned the best young boxer in the US. Bullwinkel masterfully explores the girls' innermost thoughts, drives, and, of course, feelings about hitting and being hit by each other to illustrate that each of them is, if only for a moment, the most powerful person in the room.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/half-o-ween</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-04-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Halfway to Halloween Celebration - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/complexity-darkness-and-a-strange-sense-of-fun-an-interview-with-colin-winnette</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-07-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Users (Soft Skull, 2024) is a fever-dream tech satire that’s like Apple TV’s Severance in the hands of David Lynch.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b380f87cb4245cbb8ad78e/838f3e0a-be67-436d-806c-383fc12bf24d/colin-social.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Over the Transom - Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.transombookshop.com/blog/staff-recs/march-2024</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks March 2024 - In Her Own Words</image:title>
      <image:caption>Our top pick for Women’s History Month, Speaking While Female is a definitive collection of speeches by a Who’s Who of notable American Women—politicians, activists, abolitionists, suffragettes, philosophers, first ladies, and media megastars—curated and accompanied by historical context by a professional speechwriter and activist. This vital text is a necessary reminder of the power of the spoken word throughout American history. Check out our Bookshop.org list for more WHM recs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Over the Transom - Staff Picks March 2024 - Cara</image:title>
      <image:caption>A razor-sharp, darkly whimsical tale of a college theater director’s obsession with a controversial Shakespearian play and a scathing commentary of how women with chronic illnesses are often treated.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The debut novel from poet Kaveh Akbar, follows Iranian-American writer Cyrus as he searches for answers to his family's tragic past via impromptu plane rides and Brooklyn performance art. Akbar deftly navigates Cyrus' obsession with death (or, more specifically, finding meaning in death) with equal parts humor and warmth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through a high-wire balance of speculative fiction, satire, and literary coming-of-age, Bertino spins a beautifully crafted and unfailingly engaging story of a girl whose astute and matter-of-fact commentary on youth, love, and belonging ricochets constantly between funny and sad and affirming.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An emotionally detached skincare fanatic tries to sell her late mother's apartment but, instead, finds herself in a mysterious cliffside spa that promises the ultimate treatment. There, Mirabelle uncovers increasingly disturbing childhood memories, a strangely intuitive jellyfish, and a connection to her mother she thought had been lost.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Set on a New England university campus where Ingrid Yang is in her umpteenth year of completing her PHD on Chinese-American poetry, Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation is a searing satire of the hypocrisy of academia, racism, and whose voices get to tell what stories. Chou’s novel will make you laugh until you cry, and cry until you laugh.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Riveting, heartfelt, and shrewdly observant, Nathan Hill’s Wellness is about the psychology of love, the triumphs and heartbreaks of parenthood, and the bumpy, terrifying, wonderful journey to healing the wounds the world has punctured in all of us.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lexi Freiman’s stubbornly contrarian and recently cancelled protagonist in The Book of Ayn stumbles into an Ayn Rand Walking Tour of New York City, and her sudden identification with the godmother of libertarianism leads her on an ever-absurd fumbling through the worlds of publishing and Hollywood, and a meditation retreat of the Isle of Lesbos.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Orbital is a stunningly poetic, gorgeously philosophical rumination on Earth, space, and what it is to be human. This small-but-mighty book deftly examines the very marrow of our being, and zooms out to the vertiginous depths of our existence — often in the same sentence. *Am I showing off that I know the word vertiginous? Yes, gimme a break, I own a bookstore.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“What Kind of Mother mixes Southern Gothic, a missing child story, and body horror into an entertaining brew sure to inform your nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving This one should come as no surprise: local legend Washington Irving’s classic tale of the headless horseman is in constant high demand here. We’ve got a variety of editions as well, including illustrated, graphic-novel, kids’, and single story as well as the Penguin Classics collection.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter A fast, fun, and brain-tickling tale of a metaphysical event shared by a cast of relatable and compelling characters. Like LOST meets The Leftovers with a healthy dose of French existentialism.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval This delightful photo series (from the eponymous Instagram account) showcases real places that could be set pieces from a Wes Anderson film. Great gift, coffee table book, or private escape into an adorable indie dreamscape.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The third novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Gentleman in Moscow, this mid-20th century historical novel is replete with rich characters, vivid settings, and entertaining storytelling.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman The debut collection from the 2020 Presidential Inaugural Poet, Amanda Gorman, is as brutally honest as it is brilliantly hopeful.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>5 Worlds: The Emerald Gate by Mark Siegel In the fifth and final book in the beloved 5 Worlds series, Oona and her fantastic pals seek the green beacon on a strange, dangerous planet. Illustrated by Tarrytown local Mark Siegal.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Once cleared of its contents, the space revealed itself to be ready and willing for a renovation. Most of what you see here would be ripped our, refinished, or painted over.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I had fun using the physical space to imagine the shape of things to come.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>There were a few obstacles in the remodel path, such as this flight of stairs that led to an unusable basement. Inconveniently located smack in the middle of the shop...these had to go.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Early drawings of the plan that considered using the basement for storage.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It only occurred to me later that we could simple cover up the stairs — here I was thinking we'd need to build some kind of hatch over it. (My architect hated this idea, and he was right.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Preliminary thoughts on the storefront display, where the READ MORE BOOKS neon sign ended up.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A passing thought — should I paint the inside of the archway yellow?! The back of the shop was originally going to be more kids books, and I considered a more thorough treatment of the space.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Another idea: build shelves around the stairs! This one challenges the old claim that there are no bad ideas in brainstorming.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>First architectural drawings of the cashwrap had a "cascade" look to the shelves, a checkout "nook" and shelves behind the register. We'd change this almost entirely in the next round of designs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What's now the back of the shop was previously an antique-restoration workshop. Drop ceiling, wood-paneled walls, linoleum floor — we ripped it all out.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of the many "perspective shots" I took from the front door to remember what the space looked like pre-books. That's my amazing contractor, Benjamin, standing in the old doorway.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The renovation project begins! This is July 2021 and the store would look mostly like this, with its guts all poured out, for a couple months.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Under decades of linoleum, we found the original hardwood floors, in desperate need of a refinishing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The whole back of the shop is ripped out and the new framing begins. At this point I start to wonder if I'll open at all in 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Oh yeah — the creepy Door to Nowhere we found hidden behind some old wood paneling. It opens onto a brick wall — straight outta Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline'.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ohh, look! MOLD. Centuries worth. It was very satisfying to rip this old plaster ceiling down.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One last look before the archway....</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The archway would start to emerge after the demo around mid-August. I still couldn't visualize how it would come together, but I had faith in my team.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>And they didn't disappoint! How quickly things started to come together from here. Every day a new milestone. It was a dream-coming-true.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The floors stripped, walls primed, ready for some aesthetic flourishes. I was very eager to paint over the old wallpaper and "greige" tones.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fresh coat of paint #1, early September 2021. The floors were ready for the professionals to come and do their best.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>And now the floors were refinished (still drying, you can tell by the gloss).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The first components of the new bookshelves arrive one sunny morning in mid-October.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Franklin Fixtures delivers 1,100 linear feet of shelving in two hours and we get to work installing them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here's Alan putting up the pegboard display that would serve as the backdrop for my cashwrap area.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Within a few days, it's likeness to a real bookstore starts to emerge. Books were scheduled to arrive the next day, which made for very precarious project planning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Finally, the first 70 cartons arrive (each containing about two dozen books) filling up the back room. I recruit an army of friends and family to start the shelving process. Within a few days, another 50 cartons show up, and then about 5 cartons every other day thereafter until my initial order was mostly received.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The first books hit the shelves. Based on a spreadsheet I made that divided the number of books I ordered (separated by category), I loosely model where books should go. Of course it would turn out I was WAY off, and I had to re-merchandise some sections three times before opening, but it was a good start.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Friends from far and wide came in for half-day shifts to shelve books. Their payment was coffee, wine, and "a book discount, as soon as I learn how to do that in my new software."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Every little bit helped — even my five-year old pitched in. He was mostly comic relief, but he has a knack for straightening books on their shelves. (I wonder where he gets it from?)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After months of project planning, uncertainty, hard work, down payments, and coordination, this old space could actually be mistaken for a real-life bookstore.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Last looks at the front of the store before I ripped the paper down. Doing so, I would be surprised to find that a few locals were gathering outside in anticipation of the opening.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>First look at the length of the store with the paper off the windows. It's October 22, 2021, and I'd be open in about 15 minutes. Just enough time to get a coffee and say a little Zen prayer!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>October 22, 2021, 11:00am ET, Transom Bookshop is open for business.</image:caption>
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