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Joanna Scutts

Joanna Scutts is a literary critic and cultural historian and the author of Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism.

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The Pull of the Pool

Author and critic Joanna Scutts considers Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers, our September California Book Club pick, within the lineage of literature about swimming pools.