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Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:15:00 -0500
Book reviewer Alan Cheuse selects the highlights of this holiday season: futuristic dystopias; things that go bump in the night; portraits from Norman Rockwell's America; gay New York; a celebration of our immigrant adventures; one writer's journey to manhood; and, of course, Long John Silver.
Historian Asks, 'What On Earth Evolved?'
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500
The history of Earth features a few extremely successful species, such as ants, black pepper, sheep, and of course, humans. In his book, What On Earth Evolved, Christopher Lloyd explores their stories before and after man.
In The Year's Best Memoirs, Mirth And Melancholy
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0500
Heller McAlpin's picks include: the story of a lifelong crush on Albert Camus, a humorous take on middle-aged malaise, and a no-nonsense look at mortality. The sharp, fresh writing in these memoirs will bring you headfirst into each author's world, with your heart following close behind.
The Book Bench
Books: "Tinsel"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In 2006, Stuever set out to characterize the experience of Christmas—its aesthetics, economics, and metaphysics—in an average Texas town. The resulting dissection of the holiday is cultural anthropology at its most exuberant. According to Stuever, fakery, not excess, is the signature of the modern American Christmas . . .
Books: "The Glass Room"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In this stirring historical novel, shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Viktor and Liesel Landauer commission a house in Czechoslovakia that is to embody the rational spirit of nineteen-twenties Europe: the Landauer House, with the transparent Glass Room as its center. In the room, “there is nothing . . .
Books: "Liver"
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0000
In this collection of glancingly connected stories, the body’s largest internal organ comes under repeated assault: from alcohol, at a derelict private drinking club in London; from cancer and hepatitis C, the latter doing a star turn as a first-person narrator, gleefully chronicling its multiplication in a . . .
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