Susan Coll

Book Review
The Washington Post
In ‘The Most,’ a 1950s housewife takes to the pool and won’t come out

Virgil, an aggressively handsome but lackluster insurance salesman, has concerns about his wife.

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Opinion Editorial
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Susan Coll works at Politics & Prose Bookstore and would like to emphasize that this essay should be shelved under fiction. Her novel, "The Stager," will be published in July.
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In an oft-told story from Japanese folklore, an enchanted bird marries a man. There are many variations of the tale, but the one CJ Hauser relates in the title essay of her new collection, “The Crane Wife,” involves a creature who plucks her feathers out each night to preserve her marriage, to trick her husband into believing she is human.
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“Let’s Not Do That Again” is a political comedy of manners that reads like the love child of Page Six and a long episode of “Veep.”
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