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Bookshelf: Brooklyn Yankee; Lonely Island; Food City [30 May 2014|01:08am]
In one book, Willie Randolph provides insights into colleagues; another book captures the character of North Brother Island; and another book traces the evolution of public markets that served a seaport city in 1800 into a radically different system of demand and supply.






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ArtsBeat: Billy Crystal Wins Top Audiobook Prize [30 May 2014|02:00am]
“Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?” by Billy Crystal is named audiobook of the year.






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‘The Lost Art of Dress,’ by Linda Przybyszewski [30 May 2014|02:47pm]
Linda Przybyszewski unearths fashion advice from a forgotten group of 20th-century sartorial experts.
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‘Man and Beast,’ by Mary Ellen Mark [30 May 2014|02:48pm]
A collection of Mary Ellen Mark’s photos from Mexico and India.
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‘The Divorce Papers’ by Susan Rieger [30 May 2014|02:52pm]
Susan Rieger’s epistolary first novel tells the story of a bitter uncoupling.
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‘But Enough About You,’ by Christopher Buckley [30 May 2014|02:53pm]
A collection of Christopher Buckley’s work includes historical spoofs, riffs about family life and literary criticism.
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Tom Zoellner’s ‘Train’ [30 May 2014|02:53pm]
Tom Zoellner sets off on a series of railway adventures in an attempt to recapture the power and poetry of train travel.
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‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe [30 May 2014|02:53pm]
“Love, Nina” consists of the author’s letters home to her sister while working as a live-in nanny and rubbing elbows with London’s literary royalty.
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Jen Doll’s ‘Save the Date’ [30 May 2014|02:53pm]
Jen Doll’s first book is a memoir about weddings she has attended.
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Inside the List [30 May 2014|02:56pm]
Daniel Schulman, whose biography of the politically influential Koch brothers is No. 17 on the extended hardcover nonfiction list, says, “I think it’s important, historically, to know who they are.”
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‘Casebook,’ by Mona Simpson [30 May 2014|02:58pm]
In Mona Simpson’s sixth novel, a young boy’s spying yields knowledge about the precarious state of his family.
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The Shortlist: ‘The Vacationers,’ by Emma Straub, and More [30 May 2014|03:15pm]
New books by Emma Straub, Helen Walsh and Miranda Beverly-Whittemore.
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Paperback Row [30 May 2014|03:19pm]
Paperback books of particular interest.
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Editors’ Choice [30 May 2014|03:23pm]
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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ArtsBeat: $5 Million to Endow Yale Poetry Chair [30 May 2014|03:38pm]
Frederick Iseman, the founder of a private equity firm, gave the money to endow a poetry chair and to support student access to opera.
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Sam Greenlee, Writer, Producer, Government Agent, Dies at 83 [30 May 2014|04:08pm]
“The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” a film based on Mr. Greenlee’s novel about a black power revolution, was pulled from theaters after three weeks.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Shakespeare in America’ [30 May 2014|04:36pm]
A new Library of America anthology chronicles the history of American responses to Shakespeare from 1776 to the present day.






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ArtsBeat: Douglas Adams Biography to Include Unseen ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ Material [30 May 2014|05:02pm]
Jem Roberts’s biography of Adams, coming this fall, will include previously unpublished excerpts from the writer’s archive at Cambridge.






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Books of The Times: In ‘The Third Plate,’ Dan Barber Meets Food Pioneers [30 May 2014|05:15pm]
In “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food,” the chef Dan Barber calls for a new organizing principle for cuisine that goes beyond “farm to table.”






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ArtsBeat: Maya Angelou Exhibition Opens at Schomburg Center [30 May 2014|05:47pm]
The exhibition, which will be on display through June 30, showcases materials from Ms. Angelou’s private archive, including her handwritten manuscript of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”






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Visuals [30 May 2014|07:05pm]
New books that have something to do with portraiture or self-portraiture include a collection of drawings by Kurt Vonnegut.






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Comics [30 May 2014|07:05pm]
Jaime Hernandez’s “Love Bunglers,” Jesse Jacobs’s “Safari Honeymoon” and more.






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Books of The Times: In ‘The Third Plate,’ Dan Barber Meets Food Pioneers [30 May 2014|07:39pm]
In “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food,” the chef Dan Barber calls for a new organizing principle for cuisine that goes beyond “farm to table.”






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Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley [30 May 2014|10:04pm]
A move by the British education minister Michael Gove to ensure that students read more British literature comes at the expense of American works.






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