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"Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language."
—Charles Scribner, Jr.
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Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:21 GMT
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
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Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:23 GMT
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.
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Colum McCann Wins National Book Award
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:39 GMT
Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.
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Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:48:47 GMT
Paul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.
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Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:29:35 GMT
This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.
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Newly Released Books
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:34:47 GMT
Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.
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F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:28:31 GMT
While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.
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National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:30:06 GMT
A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.
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Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:59 GMT
A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.
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Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:32 GMT
Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.
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The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:20 GMT
Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.
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Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:15:59 GMT
Though Ed Lazar’s younger son, Zachary, did not know his father well, he has written a pungent-sounding but maddeningly vague book about Ed’s murder.
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In Fleury’s Memoir, Rangers Years Are a ‘Nightmare’
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:42 GMT
With its revelations of sexual abuse and details of substance abuse, Theo Fleury’s memoir has rocked the hockey world as surely as Andre Agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:32 GMT
The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.
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Nabokov’s Last Puzzle
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:49 GMT
The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.
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Review-a-Day for Fri, Nov 20: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST
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Review-a-Day for Thu, Nov 19: Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST
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Review-a-Day for Wed, Nov 18: The Ninth (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST
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This RSS has moved
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:27:37 -0800
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Tracking A 'Missing' Man By Virtual Bread Crumbs
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:18:00 -0500
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Military Unaware Of Hasan E-Mails To Radical Cleric
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:00 -0500
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Leader Of Sears Tower Plot Sentenced To 13 Years
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:00 -0500
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Sri Lanka refugees 'to be freed'
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:17:55 GMT
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'Big Bang machine' working again
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:21:09 GMT
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Childhood abuse 'quickens ageing'
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:48:10 GMT
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