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Books of the year: Non-fiction
feature The titles selected by critics as the best of 2009
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Books of the year: Fiction
feature The titles selected by critics as the best of 2009
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Also of interest ... in fiction and essay collections
feature Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom; Day Out of Days by Sam Shepard; Fun With Problems by Robert Stone; The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis<
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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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Book of the week: Just Kids by Patti Smith
feature Just Kids tells how Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met in 1967 New York, became lovers, and willed each other from obscurity and poverty to global acclaim.
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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: George Obama
feature In a new memoir, 28-year-old George Obama, a former petty thief, credits his famous relative for giving him an important wake-up call.
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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 ... four of the year’s best cookbooks
feature Momofuku by David Chang; The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones; Gourmet Today edited by Ruth Reichl; I Know How to Cook by Ginette
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Also of interest ... in writers’ lives
feature The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar; Raymond Carver by Carol Sklenicka; Literary Life by Larry McMurtry; Too Much Money by D
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Author of the week: Joe Sacco
feature Joe Sacco's latest nonfiction comic book, the 400-page Footnotes in Gaza, deals with the massacre of residents of two towns in Gaza by Israeli troops in 1956.
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Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
feature Service's "exemplary" biography of Leon Trotsky tears apart the romantic notion that Russia’s communist revolution might have had a happier outcome had Trotsky not been outmaneuvered by Josef Stalin.
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