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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Glass Hat
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From the Cloakroom, at the Booker
Julian Barnes by Ross MacGibbon. For the real action at this year’s Man Booker Prize, you had to hit the cloakroom. For much of the evening, along with correspondents from all the major newspapers, I...
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Hope: A Tragedy was the first title I suggested to my editor. I really thought it was right. “No,” he said. My parents didn’t love me, so I have low self-esteem, and I agreed to keep working. These are...
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Buy Elvis’s Library Card
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The six-hour duration may be aspirational, but you have to love this writing sound track. Ann Lamott tweets that she will stake her reputation on the varied titles mention in her New York Times “By...
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“All They Do Is Eat,” And Other News
“It’s about eating lunch. They eat salad and cake. All they do is eat”: in which a two-year-old judges books by their covers. “He tends to devoice a lot of the fricatives, but I take that purely as an...
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Glass Hat
Richard Price and the evolving role of pseudonyms. From the cover of The Whites. Richard Price’s new novel, The Whites, isn’t by Richard Price, except that it is. It’s by Harry Brandt, Price’s...
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From Sand and Cactus
Raymond Chandler the environmentalist. The wise man, as Biblical lore has it, built his house on the rock, his foolish compatriot on the sand—guidance that mankind has ignored for millennia. In the...
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