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The debut issue of Candor magazine is like a Sassy for the intellectual set, rife with wit ( Emily Gould and Merisa Meltzer discuss Away We Go), intelligence (writer mother Rachel Zucker and woman writer Sarah Manguso speak candidly about identity, motherhood, women’s prejudices and ...
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WNYC’s Jazz Loft Project series is absolutely essential listening: a portrait of New York’s bygone bohemia, complete with resident genius Thelonious Monk . And a book version is out this week from Knopf – a great gift idea for jazz lovers.
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The Guardian asks various notable people, from Malcolm Gladwell to actor Dominic West , what their favorite books of the year are .
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I’ve just finished reading Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road . I can’t believe how good this is , is the refrain that’s been echoing in my mind. Yates’s masterful prose, psychological insight, and immaculately rendered dramatic tension get all your pistons firing—emotional, ...
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If I told you that the single greatest Christmas album ever made was created by a murderer, you might think I was talking about the plot of some holiday horror b-movie like Silent Night, Deadly Night . But no, the album I’m referring to is none other than the 1963 classic A Christmas Gift ...
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Los Angeles-based Millions readers might be interested in Sunday night’s edition of Tongue and Groove at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. I’ll be reading, along with writers Cecil Castellucci , Michael O’Keefe , Frank Montesonti , and Giuliana Mayo . Show starts at 6 pm.
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The last of the World Cup qualifying matches wrapped up this week and the final list of qualified teams is in. See the list of the 32 qualified national teams headed for South Africa in 2010 here .
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Late November brings work of another favorite Madrileño to the forefront. The final book of Javier Marías ’s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell , will be published at the end of the month by New Directions . The incomparable Marias will make two New York ...
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Catch it while you can: Charlie Rose ’s hour-long interview with Pedro Almodóvar and his muse, Penélope Cruz , touches on character, confidence, and control, and is currently available online. Almodóvar’s latest film, Broken Embraces , which I saw last summer in Madrid sans ...
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That sound you hear is a thousand book publicists wailing. Oprah Winfrey will announce today that her eponymous talk show will end in September 2011. That means that in less than two years, the ultimate book publicity coup will be off the table.
Oprah’s Book Club isn’t quite the ...
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I became a vegetarian when I was 14 years old for a variety of reasons, not all of them necessarily admirable or based on ethics. I was concerned for animal welfare but vegetarianism was also an easier way of hiding my brief and painful eating disorder from my parents and friends, a way to ...
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If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the new books and culture website The Nervous Breakdown. They’ve already got a great interview with Millions favorite Dan Chaon , as well as some interesting essays that I’m looking forward to digging into. I also like their ...
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Fans of Mary Karr ’s The Liar’s Club and Cherry : At the New York Times Book Review , Susan Cheever describes Karr’s latest memoir , Lit , as “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.”
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Slate corrects an oversight to Sarah Palin’s otherwise impeccably edited memoir : no index. Theirs runs from “Alaska, autumn bouquet of” (page 1) to “‘you betcha’
- revelation of as not actually Alaska’s state motto” (page 309), and includes ...
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Once you have seen the astonishingly evocative portraits of the neo-Modernist painter Carl Köhler (1919-2006), you will wonder how he died relatively unknown outside of his native Sweden. Such are the vagaries of the art world: Andy Warhol ’s rather uninteresting 200 One Dollar Bills ...
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The National Book Award winners for 2009 have been announced. The big prize for fiction went to Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin . McCann was the highest profile name among the nominees, and his book which revolves around Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between World Trade ...
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Paula Fox ’s ostensible review of L.J. Davis ‘ A Meaningful Life in the current New York Review of Books is really (pace N1BR ) a transporting memoir of Brooklyn in the ’70s.
