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Author of the week: Wilbert Rideau
feature Rideau spent 44 years behind bars for killing a teller during a botched bank robbery. His new book, In the Place of Justice, provides a clear picture of day-to-day prison life.
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Also of interest ... in American history
feature Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller; The War Lovers by Evan Thomas; The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick; Making Haste From Babylon by Nick Bunker
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Also of interest ... in public lives
feature This Time Together by Carol Burnett; The Bridge by David Remnick; The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst; George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter
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Also of interest ... in campus feuds and fashions
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Author of the week: James Ellroy
feature In his new memoir, the author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential once again examines the murder of his mother, using it as a touchstone for looking at his lifelong obsession with women.
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The Pain Chronicles by Melanie Thernstrom
feature The Pain Chronicles is “an ingenious mix of science, history, investigative journalism, and memoir” about pain and the treatment of pain.
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Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
feature Morton's depiction of Jolie's early childhood may explain some of her more mysterious behavior, but he fails to show how Jolie recovered to become the person she is today.
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Book of the week: The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means by Jeff Yeager
feature The lesson that less stuff equals more contentment makes Yeager’s inexpensive paperback “the perfect personal-finance book for the new economy,” said Zac Bissonnette in DailyFinance.com.
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Author of the week: Suzanne Collins
feature The final book in Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is this summer's most anticipated children’s book.
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Also of interest ... in food and wine
feature 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman; The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman; Twain’s Feast by Andrew Beahrs; The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
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Books of the week: Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson and The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson
feature These two Dutch-language masterpieces have just been released in new English translations.
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell
feature Caldwell's “slender and beautiful” memoir is about her friendship with Caroline Knapp, a writer who died of cancer several years ago at the age of 42.
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Book of the week: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
feature Jonathan Franzen’s new book is about a seemingly perfect American family that is gradually torn apart.
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Author of the week: Jonathan Franzen
feature Competition is a theme in Franzen's new book, Freedom. “It’s considered unattractive to be competitive," he said, "and yet our entire political economy is based on a mechanism of competition.”
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