Books of The Times: Richard Brautigan Biography, ‘Jubilee Hitchhiker’
23.05.2012, 01:57:16
This book about the short life of the novelist and poet Richard Brautigan distills San Francisco and Montana in the 1960s and ’70s and the wild lives of the subject and his friends.
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Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford
22.05.2012, 17:00:07
In Richard Ford’s new novel, a 15-year-old boy watches his family fall apart, and flees north to something even worse.
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‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries
22.05.2012, 16:57:16
The enthusiasm for the trilogy has forced library officials to dust off their policies — if they have them — on erotica.
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Books of The Times: ‘The Chemistry of Tears,’ a Novel by Peter Carey
21.05.2012, 17:36:04
Technology, metaphysics and the art and science of putting together a broken heart and a nonfunctioning machine are central to Peter Carey’s novel “The Chemistry of Tears.”
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Herta Müller’s Literature, Born of Isolation
21.05.2012, 15:01:02
Herta Müller, the Nobel Prize-winning author, grew up German in Romania, always under surveillance. Her newest work is a collaboration with a writer whose background was similar, but whose life was shockingly different.
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NY Writers Coalition Offers an Opportunity on a Subway Car
21.05.2012, 18:48:55
Aspiring writers, encouraged by the NY Writers Coalition, put pen to paper during a 75-minute ride on the No. 7 train.
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Books Of the Times: ‘David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress’ by Christopher Simon Sykes
18.05.2012, 19:17:19
A new biography of David Hockney traces his early life and work in England and Los Angeles up to 1975, including fascinating accounts of how some well-known paintings evolved.
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Books of The Times: Edward Klein’s Invective-Laden Obama Book
17.05.2012, 18:47:18
Janet Maslin asks, Who is the real amateur in this pairing: the subject, President Obama, or the author, Edward Klein?
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