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J. California Cooper, Award-Winning Writer, Dies at 82 [26 Sep 2014|02:47am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/arts/j-california-cooper-award-winning-writer-dies-at-82.html

Ms. Cooper was forthright in using novels, plays and short stories to explore the African-American woman.
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Alastair Reid, a Restless Poet and Essayist, Is Dead at 88 [26 Sep 2014|02:57am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/arts/alastair-reid-a-restless-poet-and-essayist-is-dead-at-88.html

The Scottish-born Mr. Reid wrote of far-flung places for The New Yorker over more than half a century.
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'Island of a Thousand Mirrors,' by Nayomi Munaweera [26 Sep 2014|02:41pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/island-of-a-thousand-mirrors-by-nayomi-munaweera.html

Two families find themselves on opposite sides of Sri Lanka’s civil war in this debut novel.
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'The Scatter Here Is Too Great,' by Bilal Tanweer [26 Sep 2014|02:41pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/the-scatter-here-is-too-great-by-bilal-tanweer.html

An attack in Karachi reveals a web of lives connected by violence in this novel-in-stories.
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Inside the List [26 Sep 2014|02:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/books/review/inside-the-list.html

Caitlin Doughty, whose “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is No. 14 on the hardcover nonfiction list, is a young undertaker who has made it her mission to demystify death and promote a D.I.Y. approach to funerals.
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'My Two Italies,' by Joseph Luzzi [26 Sep 2014|02:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/my-two-italies-by-joseph-luzzi.html

A son of Italian immigrants on his relationship with the ancestral homeland.
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Open Book |: Disquiet on the Set [26 Sep 2014|02:43pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/disquiet-on-the-set.html

In “Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed,” the filmmaker talks about his notoriously volatile relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski, among many other subjects.
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Open Book: Disquiet on the Set [26 Sep 2014|02:43pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/disquiet-on-the-set.html

In “Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed,” the filmmaker talks about his notoriously volatile relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski, among many other subjects.
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'Consumed,' by David Cronenberg [26 Sep 2014|02:48pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/consumed-by-david-cronenberg.html

David Cronenberg’s debut novel centers on two journalists and their fascination with scandal and social media.
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'The Undertaking,' by Audrey Magee [26 Sep 2014|02:51pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/the-undertaking-by-audrey-magee.html

A first novel set in World War II Germany.
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Damon Galgut's 'Arctic Summer' [26 Sep 2014|02:56pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/damon-galguts-arctic-summer.html

Based on the life of E. M. Forster, this novel traces a struggle for liberation both on and off the page.
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Crime: John Harvey's 'Darkness, Darkness' and More [26 Sep 2014|03:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/john-harveys-darkness-darkness-and-more.html

“Darkness, Darkness,” John Harvey’s final novel in his series featuring Inspector Charlie Resnick, strikes an elegiac tone.
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Louise Glück's 'Faithful and Virtuous Night' [26 Sep 2014|03:26pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/louise-glcks-faithful-and-virtuous-night.html

Many of the poems in Louise Glück’s collection feature an aging painter confronting his own mortality.
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The Shortlist: Jessie Burton's 'The Miniaturist' and More [26 Sep 2014|03:35pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/jessie-burtons-the-miniaturist-and-more.html

New books by Jessie Burton, Alix Christie, Rosie Thomas and Katy Simpson Smith.
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Paperback Row [26 Sep 2014|03:49pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
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Editors’ Choice [26 Sep 2014|04:08pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Texting While Driving [26 Sep 2014|06:32pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/book-review-podcast-texting-while-driving/

Matt Richtel discusses “A Deadly Wandering,” and Mark Edmundson talks about “Why Football Matters.”
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Literary Biography of Jonathan Franzen to Appear Next Year [26 Sep 2014|07:40pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/business/media/literary-biography-of-jonathan-franzen-to-appear-next-year.html

The author of four novels, Mr. Franzen is the focus of a Swarthmore College English professor who has also studied Faulkner, Proust and Kafka.
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Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ [26 Sep 2014|08:25pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-films-inherent-vice.html

One mystery in “Inherent Vice,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, is whether the author makes an appearance.
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