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Author of the week: Jack Handey
feature Jack Handey would like you to know he’s a real person.
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Also of interest...in foodie adventures
feature Blue Plate Special; The Telling Room; On the Noodle Road; Gaining Ground
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
feature Robert Kolker’s “compelling, nearly unputdownable narrative” examines the still-unsolved case of the “Long Island Serial Killer.”
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Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison by Michael Daly
feature Michael Daly’s heartrending story about an elephant named Topsy is also a fascinating portrait of the Gilded Age—dark underbelly and all.
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primatesby Frans de Waal
feature The author argues that moral behavior predates religion and is instead rooted in hardwired emotional responses that are common to all mammals.
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Also of interest...in parenting and misparenting
feature The Astor Orphan; The Mothers; With or Without You; Carrie and Me
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Book of the week: The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
feature “The new American way of war is here, but the debate about it has just begun.”
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
feature Brendan Koerner’s lively new book captures the general craziness of an era when hijackings occurred roughly once a week on average.
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Book of the week: Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolutionby Brett Martin
feature Brett Martin’s book opens a “clear and tantalizing” window on an artistic shift that has remade American television.
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Also of interest...in alternative lifestyles
feature Fairyland; Bootstrapper; It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It; Walden on Wheels
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Author of the week: Alice Munro
feature The short-story master is ending her career on a high note.
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Book of the week: One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One by Lauren Sandler
feature It’s time to bury “the long-standing stereotype of the only child as selfish, maladjusted, and eternally lonely.”
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympicsby Daniel James Brown
feature It’s hardly surprising that Hollywood pounced on Daniel James Brown’s book well before it was published.
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Author of the week: Kevin Kwan
feature Kevin Kwan has witnessed displays of opulence that are so over the top that he couldn’t include them in his satirical novel, Crazy Rich Asians.
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