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Author of the week: Stephen Elliott
feature Stephen Elliott invented a new kind of book tour by contacting readers of his website.
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Also of interest ... in chameleons and shape-shifters
feature Summertime by J.M. Coetzee; Happy by Alex Lemon; How to Change Someone You Love by Brad Lamm; The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
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Author of the week: Ha Jin
feature For his story collection, A Good Fall, Ha Jin made 20 visits to New York's Flushing neighborhood to fully grasp the challenges faced by new Chinese immigrants at a time when technology makes it difficult to sever ties with th
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Gift books: Five that will provide lasting pleasure
feature Parcours Muséologique Revisité; A Shadow Falls; The Red Book; Vincent van Gogh: The Letters; The Jazz Loft Project
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Author of the week: David Small
feature Critics are calling David Small's cartoon memoir and first book for adults a “masterpiece.”
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Also of interest ... in lives on the edge
feature Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves; The Harvard Psychedelic Club
by Don Lattin; You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier; The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kfeature -
Also of interest ... in fashion photography
feature The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman; Avedon Fashion: 1944–2000; Resort Fashion by Caroline Rennolds Milbank; Who Shot Rock & Roll <
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Author of the week: Jules Feiffer
feature The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist grew up dreaming that creating a daily newspaper strip would be his escape from the Bronx—and chronic pipsqueak-dom.
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Also of interest ... in ghouls and otherworldly creatures
feature Angelology by Danielle Trussoni; Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith; The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
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Also of interest ... in exploring foreign lands
feature Country Driving by Peter Hessler; Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick; The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino; A Dead Hand by Paul Theroux
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Author of the week: Henning Mankell
feature The dean of contemporary Swedish crime fiction dropped out of school at 16 to start on his writing career. His depressive detective, Kurt Wallander, will take a final bow in a book that will be published in English next year.
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Also of interest ... in memorable heroines
feature Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic; The Poker Bride by Christopher Corbett; The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn; Mrs. Adams in Winter by Michael O’Brien
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Novel of the week: The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
feature Ferris' new novel is about a man with a compulsion to walk until he is exhausted. His first novel, Then We Came to the End, was a best-seller.
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Author of the week: Karl Marlantes
feature Matterhorn is being hailed as one of the most devastating war novels in decades.
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