This week's edition of Books & Beats includes a preview of the four-piece New Wave pop powerhouse - homegrown in Provo - Neon Trees. And a review of Margaret Atwood’s collection of short stories, “Stone Mattress: 9 Tales” (Nan A. Talese). If you’re not a fan of short stories, you might want to give this collection a try - Atwood ties the stories together so that the book reads as a semi-detached novella.
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Books & Beats: September 20, 2014
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