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January 13, 2011
Booksellers Rock! Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage
What books recently rocked my world: . The View From Lazy Point by Carl Safina – one of the best writers out there on the natural world, particularly oceans, this book is …
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January 12, 2011
What We’re Reading: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Over the fall, while helping to search for quotes to accompany the spreads in Algonquin’s annual Out on the Porch calendar, I stumbled upon a passage from Breakfast at Tiffany’s that I …
January 6, 2011
Censor Huck Finn? Opinion Piece by Tayari Jones
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the NewSouth is publishing an updated version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that omits racially sensitive words. We consider this completely backwards and can’t …
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December 30, 2010
Nailing the New Year’s Resolution by Caroline Leavitt
First let me say that a New Year’s resolution was my absolute last resort. For years I’d been trying to stop biting my nails, a habit that seemed encoded in my DNA …
December 29, 2010
Jewish Christmas Eve Lasagna by Lauren Grodstein
Because nobody thought to tell me otherwise, I believed in Santa Claus until I was eleven. This is not because I was a particularly gullible child, I don’t think – it’s just …
December 28, 2010
Another Late Christmas by Joseph Skibell
Last week in group therapy, people were complaining about the upcoming holidays. It was the seventh day of Hanukkah – that night, we’d be lighting the menorah for the last night – …
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December 27, 2010
O Christmas Tree by Jill McCorkle
It’s the week between Christmas and New Years. The joy and excitement (and stress) of Christmas are over, but the decorations can still be left alone. For now, at least. The New …
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December 21, 2010
What We’re Reading: At Home: A History of Private Life
I am the unlikeliest person to be reading this book, for three reasons: 1) as anyone who knows me well can report, I have a certain deficiency in the housekeeping department; 2) …
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