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Book of the week: Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough by Lori Gottlieb
feature In Marry Him, Gottlieb expands on the famous essay she wrote for The Atlantic, in which she blamed the feminist movement for encouraging women to have unrealistic expectations.
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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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Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
feature Plenty has been written about Tammy Wynette, but until this compelling account, no one had delivered a fair-minded and comprehensive biography.
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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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Also of interest ... in big-name mysteries
feature The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson; Innocent by Scott Turow; 61 Hours by Lee Child; Finding Chandra by Scott Higham & Sari Horwitz
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Author of the week: Martin Amis
feature Amis' new book, The Pregnant Widow, brings out the negative aspects of the sexual revolution. His own alter ego is a sex obsessed twit, and a female character is based on his sister, Sally.
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War by Sebastian Junger
feature The author of The Perfect Storm embedded himself with an Army platoon fighting in a remote and barren valley in Afghanistan.
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Book of the week: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
feature Okrent has written a “witty” and well-documented new history of Prohibition.
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Author of the week: Chevy Stevens
feature Sitting alone at an open house, Chevy Stevens began imagining what might happen if the next client turned out to be a monster. Such dark daydreaming led to her first book, Still Missing, one of this summer's great thrillers.
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
feature Carr became interested in how the Internet affects the mind when he realized that he was beginning to struggle when reading the kind of long, complex works he once enjoyed.
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Author of the week: Vanessa Woods
feature Woods has gathered her studies about the promiscuous sex lives of bonobo monkeys into a new book, Bonobo Handshake. Sex, she says, is the “mechanism” these cousins of ours use to diffuse tension and live peacefully.
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Also of interest ... in erring humans
feature The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons; Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz; Not Exactly by Kees van Deemter; Quantum by Manjit Kumar
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