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Next week, the NYTBR features an exclusive excerpt of Hilary Mantel's title shor...

Next week, the NYTBR features an exclusive excerpt of Hilary Mantel's title short story from her forthcoming collection, "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" in a full 8-page pull-out section.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/the-assassination-of-margaret-thatcher-august-6th-1983.html?_r=0


Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’
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The title story from Hilary Mantel’s forthcoming collection. Her most recent novels, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” both won the Man Booker Prize.

What kind of reader were you as a child? I was a flashlight-under-the-covers re...

What kind of reader were you as a child?
I was a flashlight-under-the-covers reader. I loved books about girls doing active things — biographies of women like the astronomer Maria Mitchell, or Harriet Tubman or Marie Curie. I read Laura Ingalls Wilder, all the Alcott books and a wonderful out-of-print German novel, “The Wicked Enchantment.” As an adult, I realize it is a parable of the Nazi takeover of Germany, but as a child I loved the brave heroine, her little dog Winnie and the aunts who look after them both.

Sara Paretsky: By the Book
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/sara-paretsky-by-the-book.html?ref=books&_r=0


Sara Paretsky: By the Book
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The author of the V. I. Warshawski novels, most recently “Critical Mass,” was hugely influenced by “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: “I felt as though I’d fallen into words and wanted to drown in them.”

“I had to put down By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from...

“I had to put down By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review (Holt, Oct.),” edited by Pamela Paul, “to do real work,” I wrote to one of LJ’s literature reviewers. She helpfully agreed to review the book. The astute unabridged interviews feature a wide range of nonfiction and fiction writers such as Dan Savage, Neil Gaiman, and J.K. Rowling.

http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2014/08/books/genre-fiction/editors-fall-picks/


Editors’ Fall Picks
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For style and subterfuge, look no further than these 36 fall books that have LJ's review editors talking

Books of The Times: ‘Rainey Royal,’ by Dylan Landis. Dylan Landis’s “Rainey Roya...

Books of The Times: ‘Rainey Royal,’ by Dylan Landis. Dylan Landis’s “Rainey Royal,” a novel composed of 14 episodes in a troubled girl’s life, smolders with the question of how far she will go to get a sense that she matters. http://ift.tt/1xcgMPu


‘Rainey Royal,’ by Dylan Landis
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ArtsBeat: Inviting Young Readers to Take Sides in a Crayon-Labor Dispute. The pu...

ArtsBeat: Inviting Young Readers to Take Sides in a Crayon-Labor Dispute. The publisher of “The Day the Crayons Quit,” a best seller about a group of disgruntled crayons who go on strike, is inviting children to take sides. http://ift.tt/1lzQXnd


Inviting Young Readers to Take Sides in a Crayon-Labor Dispute
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Children’s Books: ‘The Witch’s Boy,’ by Kelly Barnhill. Kelly Barnhill’s “The Wi...

Children’s Books: ‘The Witch’s Boy,’ by Kelly Barnhill. Kelly Barnhill’s “The Witch’s Boy” is set in an absorbing world of kingdoms and prophecies in which transformation comes through language, courage and self-awareness. http://ift.tt/1poSgAE


‘The Witch’s Boy,’ by Kelly Barnhill
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Books of The Times: In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character. In Ben Ler...

Books of The Times: In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character. In Ben Lerner’s latest novel, “10:04,” New York itself is more than a mere backdrop. http://ift.tt/W8sPwn


In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character
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Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal. A German philosopher, Bettina Sta...

Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal. A German philosopher, Bettina Stangneth, explores the voluminous memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, and her country’s reluctance to prosecute him.
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Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal
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Books of The Times: ‘The Dog,’ the Latest by Joseph O’Neill, of ‘Netherland’. “T...

Books of The Times: ‘The Dog,’ the Latest by Joseph O’Neill, of ‘Netherland’. “The Dog,” by Joseph O’Neill, is a first-person narrative of an expat lawyer in the Persian Gulf whose life is going nowhere.
http://ift.tt/1utNc2v


‘The Dog,’ the Latest by Joseph O’Neill, of ‘Netherland’
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John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams. John Lahr’s biography “Tennessee Wi...

John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams. John Lahr’s biography “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” draws on a wealth of letters and journals to explore the synergy between his life and his plays.
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John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams
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