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Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ [08 Oct 2015|09:30am]
Hallberg’s first novel is a Dickens-size descent into New York City circa 1976-77.









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Diana Nyad: By the Book [08 Oct 2015|12:00pm]
The long-distance swimmer and author of the memoir “Find a Way” hid her love of German literature from her mother, who lived through the Nazi occupation of France: “She threatened to never talk to me again.”









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Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature [08 Oct 2015|02:42pm]
The Belarussian journalist and prose writer is best known for giving voice to survivors of war and disaster.









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ArtsBeat: Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel [08 Oct 2015|04:44pm]
Anne Applebaum, Philip Gourevitch and other journalists celebrate Ms. Alexievich’s win.









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‘Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter,’ by Kate Clifford Larson [08 Oct 2015|05:10pm]
The Kennedys did not know what to do about Rosemary, their intellectually disabled third child.









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Children’s Books: Raising Up the Dead [08 Oct 2015|05:23pm]
A picture book biography of the Mexican artist who popularized Day of the Dead calaveras draws on the appeal of skulls and skeletons to the young.









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Ben Bernanke’s ‘The Courage to Act’ [08 Oct 2015|08:41pm]
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve writes about how government and financial institutions dealt with what has come to be known as the Great Recession.









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Books of The Times: Review: Elvis Costello’s ‘Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,’ a Memoir [08 Oct 2015|10:26pm]
This autobiography, streaked with funny, strange, spiteful and anguished writing, comes from a musician who has been cagey and word-drunk from the start.









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Letters: Finishing the Business [08 Oct 2015|11:15pm]
Readers respond to recent reviews of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family” and more.









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