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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Flynn, Johnson, Diamond, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Nick Flynn, Daisy Johnson, Jason Diamond, and more—that are publishing this week.

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This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire by Nick Flynn

Here’s what  about : “In this outstanding work, poet and playwright Flynn bookends his first memoir, 2004’s  with this unsparing look at his early childhood and his mother, who died by suicide when Flynn was 22 years old. He makes a series of visits to his hometown of Scituate, Mass., with his young daughter and describes his solitary childhood spent living with his mother in

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