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In 'Cahokia Jazz,' alternate history mashes up with hardboiled noir
10 months, 1 week ago

In 'Cahokia Jazz,' alternate history mashes up with hardboiled noir

NPR  

In 'Cahokia Jazz,' alternate history mashes up with hardboiled noir DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Much of the action of Frances Spufford's latest novel, "Cahokia Jazz," plays out in the shadows, beginning with its opening scene - at first glance, a classic …

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Cahokia Jazz: Interview with Francis Spufford about his alternate-history mystery.
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Cahokia Jazz: Interview with Francis Spufford about his alternate-history mystery.

Slate  

Cahokia Jazz, British writer Francis Spufford’s third novel, is a smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s, but not an entirely recognizable 1920s. Spufford’s piano-playing hero, Joe Barrow, an orphan of Black and Native American descent, is a police detective and a newcomer to the city, and when he and his cynical partner catch a particularly gruesome murder case, they’re …

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This alternate version of America’s story is an audacious work of the imagination
10 months, 2 weeks ago

This alternate version of America’s story is an audacious work of the imagination

LA Times  

Book Review Cahokia Jazz By Francis Spufford Scribner: 436 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. This is the premise of Francis Spufford’s dazzling new novel, “Cahokia Jazz.” Spufford, an award-winning British writer, tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the …

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The US' lost, ancient megacity
3 years, 8 months ago

The US' lost, ancient megacity

BBC  

The US' lost, ancient megacity MattGush/Getty Images The Native American cosmopolis of Cahokia was once bigger than Paris In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle. Michael S Lewis/Getty Images Seventy of Cahokia’s original mounds are protected within the Unesco World Heritage Site It's what Cahokia didn't …

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