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Frances Kroll Ring, Secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dies at 99 [24 Jun 2015|02:51am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/books/frances-kroll-ring-secretary-to-f-scott-fitzgerald-dies-at-99.html

Ms. Ring was a sounding board for Fitzgerald and after his death was a longtime source of information for biographers, filmmakers and fans.
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Children’s Books: A Cure for Hovering [24 Jun 2015|03:06pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/books/review/a-cure-for-hovering.html

A little boy finds independence despite his hovering family in a funny, refreshing new picture book.
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ArtsBeat: Reading About the Confederacy [24 Jun 2015|04:57pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/reading-about-the-confederacy/

Five books offer a start in wading through volumes of history on the South and the Civil War.
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Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others [24 Jun 2015|07:46pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/books/reviews-new-books-from-sarah-hall-mia-alvarkatherine-taylor-and-others.html

England, upstate New York and Manila are among the settings authors have chosen for their new novels.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker [24 Jun 2015|07:56pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/books/review-man-in-profile-studies-joseph-mitchell-of-the-new-yorker.html

Thomas Kunkel’s biography covers Mr. Mitchell’s sparkling portraits of New York’s marginal people, as well as his breaking the rules of nonfiction and an epic case of writer’s block.
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Open Book: Canvas and Verse [24 Jun 2015|08:26pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/books/review/canvas-and-verse.html

“I Don’t Poem” features painters’ work alongside their poetry.
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Letters: The Stranger [24 Jun 2015|08:34pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/books/review/letters-the-stranger.html

Readers respond to recent reviews of Kamel Daoud’s “The Mersault Investigation,” a biography of Léon Blum and more.
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‘Being Nixon’ and ‘One Man Against the World’ [24 Jun 2015|08:38pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/books/review/being-nixon-and-one-man-against-the-world.html

Two new books try to make sense of the life and presidency of Richard Nixon.
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‘Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series,’ by Leah Dickerman and Elsa Smithgall [24 Jun 2015|09:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/books/review/jacob-lawrence-the-migration-series-by-leah-dickerman-and-elsa-smithgall.html

The images in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series are perhaps the most recognizable images of ­African-Americans in the 20th century.
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