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June 3, 2017
BookCon 2017: Dan Brown Shares His Secrets
This content was originally published by on 3 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Dan Brown fans have waited four years for a new book to decode. Source link
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‘White Fur,’ By Jardine Libaire : NPR
This content was originally published by Jason Sheehan on 3 June 2017 | 11:00 am. Source link It begins the way all great stories should: with a boy, a girl, a shotgun and a cheap motel room. 300 lightning bolt pages later, it ends the same way — a girl, a boy and a gun.…
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Getting Beyond ‘I Love It’: How to Understand Movies
This content was originally published by LISA SCHWARZBAUM on 2 June 2017 | 2:45 pm. Source link Photo From “Children of Men,” directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Credit Double Negative/Universal Pictures TALKING PICTURESHow to Watch MoviesBy Ann Hornaday289 pp. Basic Books. $26. Consider the following four movie reviews: “Awesome!” “Awful!” “Criminally underrated!” “It is my sad…
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BookCon 2017: Desperate for Good Conversation: Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald
This content was originally published by on 3 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Marc Maron craves good conversation. Since 2009, he has had hundreds of them from his garage, where he hosts his popular WTF podcast. Source link
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A Man Learns The Truth About His Adoption In ‘Everybody’s Son’ : NPR
This content was originally published by Scott Simon on 3 June 2017 | 11:32 am. Source link A mother leaves her 9-year-old son locked in an airless apartment for a week with no food, water or light. He breaks out through a window, and police find him weak and bleeding; they also find his mother…
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Letters to the Editor – The New York Times
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 3:00 pm. Source link ⬥ Understanding Obama’s Past To the Editor: In response to Brent Staples’s review of “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” by David J. Garrow (May 21): When I was about 5 years old, my mother left me in North…
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BookCon 2017: Colleen Hoover: Different Endings
This content was originally published by on 3 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link It takes courage to ground a book in your family’s private story, especially one involving an abusive relationship. Source link
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Unknown Edith Wharton Play Surfaces
This content was originally published by JENNIFER SCHUESSLER on 2 June 2017 | 6:19 pm. Source link Photo Edith Wharton, circa 1905. Credit The New York Times In 2009, a cache of letters from the young Edith Wharton to her governess caused a stir when they turned up at auction. Now, an archive in Texas…
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Book Deals: Week of June 5, 2017
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Katherine Arden sells her middle grade debut, Minotaur buys a new historical mystery series by Brit Jessica Fellowes, and more in this week’s notable book deals. Source link
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June 2, 2017
A Half-Century of Walking Cape Cod’s Beaches
This content was originally published by FEN MONTAIGNE on 2 June 2017 | 7:20 pm. Source link Photo The bustling Cape known to summer visitors: A vintage tourist map. Credit GraphicaArtis/Getty Images THE OUTER BEACHA Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod’s Atlantic ShoreBy Robert Finch327 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95. This may be a…
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