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The 10 Best Books of 2014 [04 Dec 2014|10:00am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/the-10-best-books-of-2014.html

The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
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ArtsBeat: A First Edition Auction, With the Writers Nervously Looking On [04 Dec 2014|02:39pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/a-first-edition-auction-with-the-writers-nervously-looking-on/

The evening sale’s high price: Philip Roth’s annotated first edition of “American Pastoral” sold for $80,000.
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Jan Morris: By the Book [04 Dec 2014|03:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/jan-morris-by-the-book.html

The author, most recently, of “Ciao, Carpaccio!” recently found in her old copy of “Anna Karenina,” in an “evidently intoxicated scrawl,” the inscription “THIS IS THE BETS BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.”
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ArtsBeat: A Booker Prize Winner’s Latest Laurel: Bad Sex in Fiction Award [04 Dec 2014|04:49pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/a-booker-prize-winners-latest-laurel-bad-sex-in-fiction-award/

Despite fierce competition, Ben Okri wins the award, issued by The Literary Review, with a passage from “The Age of Magic.”
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Sendak’s Estate: Debating Where the Things Go [04 Dec 2014|05:20pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/books/maurice-sendaks-estate-debating-where-the-things-go.html

Lynn Caponera, Maurice Sendak’s housekeeper and caretaker for more than 30 years, is pushing ahead to burnish his legacy, amid questions.
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Allan Kornblum, Independent Publisher, Dies at 65; Sought the Undiscovered [04 Dec 2014|06:26pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/business/media/allan-kornblum-independent-publisher-dies-at-65-.html

Mr. Kornblum started Coffee House Press, an independent publisher known for finding and nurturing new authors.
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ArtsBeat: A Booker Prize Winner’s Latest Laurel: Bad Sex in Fiction Award [04 Dec 2014|08:50pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/a-booker-prize-winners-latest-laurel-bad-sex-in-fiction-award/

Despite fierce competition, Ben Okri wins the award, issued by The Literary Review, with a passage from “The Age of Magic.”
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The Pour: The Best Wine Books of 2014 [04 Dec 2014|08:56pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/dining/the-best-wine-books-of-2014.html

Eric Asimov reviews five of his favorite new wine books.
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ArtsBeat: A Booker Prize Winner’s Latest Laurel: Bad Sex in Fiction Award [04 Dec 2014|09:03pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/a-booker-prize-winners-latest-laurel-bad-sex-in-fiction-award/

Despite fierce competition, Ben Okri wins the award, issued by The Literary Review, with a passage from “The Age of Magic.”
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Books of The Times: ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ Scott Saul’s Biography [04 Dec 2014|10:35pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/books/becoming-richard-pryor-scott-sauls-biography.html

Scott Saul’s biography “Becoming Richard Pryor” draws on new sources to trace his journey from harshly treated boy in an Illinois brothel to comic genius with a fully honed act in the late 1970s.
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P. D. James, Novelist Known as ‘Queen of Crime,’ Dies at 94 [04 Dec 2014|10:37pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/international/p-d-james-mystery-novelist-known-as-queen-of-crime-dies-at-94.html

A consummate stylist, the British author and baroness accumulated numerous awards for the 18 crime novels produced during her 49-year writing career.
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