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Harlem Is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
feature Rhodes-Pitts brings a “startling” and unique voice to her portrait of Harlem's brilliant past and its transformation by gentrification.
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Also of interest...in memoirs of youth
feature Revolution by Deb Olin Unferth; Henry’s Demons by Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn; Townie by Andre Dubus III; My Father’s Fortune by Michael Frayn
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Books of the year: Fiction
feature The fiction titles selected by critics as the best of 2011
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Books of the year: Nonfiction
feature The nonfiction titles selected by critics as the best of 2011
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Author of the week: Stephen Sondheim
feature Look, I Made a Hat, the Broadway composer's sequel to Finishing the Hat, follows Sondheim’s career from 1981 on.
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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
feature Hughes's formidable history begins with Romulus and Remus and ends with Silvio Berlusconi.
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Novel of the week: Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet
feature In Ghost Lights, an IRS agent sets out to find real estate mogul T., who disappeared in Millet's previous novel, How the Dead Dream.
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Book of the week: And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
feature Shields’s insightful and gossipy new biography captures the contradictions of a man who once showed up at a lyric-writing session with Jefferson Airplane in a Brooks Brothers suit.
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Author of the week: Miranda July
feature The idea for July's new book, It Chooses You, came while she was looking at Pennysaver classified ads.
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Also of interest...in food pursuits
feature Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller; Bread: A Global History by William Rubel; Balzac’s Omelette by Anka Muhlstein; Mycophilia by Eugenia Bone
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Author of the week: Darcie Chan
feature A dozen traditional publishers rejected Chan's first novel. She then decided to self-publish it as an e-book.
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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit by Joseph Epstein
feature The witty essayist examines the history of rumormongering. He also points out that research shows that talking behind others’ backs “can enhance psychological well-being.”
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Book of the week: Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports by Mark Ribowsky
feature Ribowsky has written a “vivid” biography of a sportscaster who was so divisive that he once won both most-loved and most-loathed television personality in the same poll.
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Also of interest...in pop music
feature Sweet Judy Blue Eyes by Judy Collins; The Doors by Greil Marcus; Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes; Le Freak by Nile Rodgers
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