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Reiko Hillyer. Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 280 pp. ISBN 9780813936703, $45.00 (cloth). - Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl. Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Books, 2015. 224 pp. ISBN 9781469621128, $29.95 (cloth). - Joanna Walsh. Hotel. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 176 pp. ISBN 9781628924770, $14.99 (paper). - Rick Moody, Hotels of North America. New York: Little, Brown, 2015. 198 pp. ISBN 978-0-316-17855-6. $25.00 (cloth). - Joseph Roth. The Hotel Years. New York: New Directions, 2015. 192 pp. ISBN 978081122487, $14.95 (paper).
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