Tag: justin torres
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2024 Tournament of Books: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store vs Blackouts/The Bee Sting
And the final match-up of the Tournament of Books. I used to think that the judgments and reviews were done in real time, judges in later rounds furiously working their way through the books to be sure they were able and hoping that the book they’d left at the bottom of the stack of potential…
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2024 Tournament of Books: The Bee Sting vs Blackouts
My picks for who would win the quarterfinals were both knocked out before they got there but, one of the weird and wild parts of the Tournament of Books is the Zombie Round: The most popular books that were previously eliminated get a chance to come back from the dead before the finals and as…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Blackouts/Dayswork vs Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Semifinal time! I start with my Alternate Reality Where the matchup is between Dayswork and Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. We have an experimental novel against an exemplar of a straightforward narrative, and to be honest, putting these two up against each other, I found I was just in the mood for a straight narrative. Actual reality…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Blackouts/Boys Weekend vs Dayswork
Today, we start the quarterfinals. I’ve talked about all of the books now, so here, I’m going to start focusing on the head-to-head matchups. Of course, the fact that there was a difference of opinion on what books should have moved on the first matchup. So I will start with Alternative history In my opinion,…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Boys Weekend vs Blackouts
I’ve often wondered how the original seeding works in the Tournament of Books. Are they looking for unlikely matchups? Is it just random? However it goes, this is certainly an odd pairing. Blackouts is very much the embodiment of the Important Novel. It won the National Book Award and treats of a Serious subject, a…