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January 16, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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In the News: Falling Shares, Criminal Profits
- A day after Barnes & Noble shares fell five per cent, the company laid off nearly a hundred employees from its corporate headquarters in New York. A study of the relationship between Darwin’s theories of...
January 16, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Lit Spirits: The Smoker
- A weekly feature by the mixologist Michael Cecconi, pairing cocktails with characters from literature. Douglas Kerchek, “The Smoker,” from “Kissing in Manhattan,” by David SchicklerSpanish Flip When you marry into a family that seems to...
January 15, 2009
Blog: Goings On
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Diet Dilemmas
- One of the most surely made (and quickly broken) New Year’s resolutions has to involve food: to eat better, more local, just less. Yet much of the information with which we make these choices, argues...
January 15, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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“24”’s Novel Politics
- As the nation prepares to inaugurate a bona-fide literary writer as President, we’ve received word of another writer elevated to a job in the West Wing: Ethan Canin, the author of the best-selling novel “America,...
January 15, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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In the News: Illiteracy Battle, Victorious Classics
- The two most popular writers in the world in 2008, according to international best-seller lists, were Khaled Hosseini and Ken Follett. Caleb Crain is still pessimistic about reading in America, despite the recent National Endowment...
January 15, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Maybe It Was the Vodka
- On Tuesday night, at the Russian Samovar, on Fifty-second Street, Sam Lipsyte aired part of his comic novel-in-progress, and probably got more applause than whoever was onstage at the Laugh Factory down on Eighth Avenue....
January 15, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: Carnal Lover
- Earlier this week, I bemoaned my reluctance to make notes in books, which has left me at sea in Bolaño’s labyrinth, unable to keep track of what seems literally a cast of thousands. A commenter,...
January 15, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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Inaugural Voyage
- This weekend, I’ll be one of the locusts on the Mall in D.C., clucking and clapping and elbowing my way to the Port-A-Potty. I don’t have a ticket to the Inauguration but, as my father...
January 15, 2009
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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Subpoena Envy
- The season première of “24” opened up with “Senator Blaine Mayer” grilling Jack Bauer, secret agent and torturer, at a subcommittee hearing. Senator Mayer is a stand-in for New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer. (He’s...
January 14, 2009
Blog: The Book Bench
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National Reading “2666” Month: The Painter
- I took a break from “2666” yesterday, and the gloom lifted. Coincidentally—or perhaps not?—yesterday was also the first time in a week that my six-month-old daughter did not wake up in the dead of night,...
