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The ‘Snopes’ Trilogy (continued) - Wow, did I set off a bomb yesterday, or what? For those who missed it --- or those who were here but thought nothing was awry --- I suggested that Oprah may
The 13 Clocks - The younger generation has no idea who he was, but once upon a time, James Thurber was a god. He wrote “Talk of the Town” and dashed off cartoons for
The 1964 Civil Rights Murders: Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney - On June 21, 1964, Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney were murdered in Mississippi. Other civil rights workers were killed in the 1960s, but this was different. Two of
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D. - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. burst onto the bestseller list in 1974. More “reprints” followed. Then Nicholas Meyer, the "editor" of
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - When Netflix launched Lupin, it became the first French series to make its top 10 list. The appeal was obvious --- this is a great time for a stylish
The Adventures of Polo - We've been reading to the little one all her young life, so Flotsam was a huge hit. At last! A book that she could read to us. Or,
The Affliction - When we last saw Maggie Detweiler and her old friend Hope Babbin, the recently retired private school head and the socialite were investigating a murder at the Oquossoc Mountain Inn
The All of It: A Novel - Ann Patchett and a friend were browsing in a used bookstore when her friend spotted a musty copy of “The All of It.” Patchett, who had won the PEN/Faulkner Award
The Annals of Unsolved Crime - I met Edward Jay Epstein a lifetime ago, in Cambridge in 1965. He was researching a book about the Kennedy assassination. I wondered why. Wasn’t JFK killed by Lee Harvey
The Arc of The Boomers: A Guest Butler’s essay - Guest Butler Stephen Mo Hanan made his Broadway debut as Samuel opposite Kevin Kline in “The Pirates of Penzance.” He was nominated for a Tony Award for creating Asparagus/Growltiger in
The Art of Travel - A December afternoon in London --- it's depressing just to read those words, much less be there. But at the start of “The Art of Travel,”
The Art of Flourishing: A Guide to Mindfulness, Self-Care and Love in a Chaotic World - Talk about conflicted! Jeffrey Rubin has been a friend for a decade. Long before he started writing this book, I heard him talk through some of the ideas. I read
The Art of Max Ferguson - At the height of Rudy Giuliani’s reign, my stepson and I went downtown for an art opening. The artist was Max Ferguson, one of my former screenwriting students. He is, without
The Art of Racing in the Rain - When the movie opens on August 8th, that sound you'll hear is grown men sobbing. Here's reason #1: Here's reason #2: “In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high
The Art of Tim Burton - The first time we went to the Tim Burton show at the Museum of Modern Art, I took my 7.85-year-old daughter. The second time, she took me. That’s as it should be.
The Arthur Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from the Real Little Italy - “This is your world, I'm just temporary.” So said the waiter at Mario's on Saturday night, misquoting the old line about Sinatra (“It's Frank's world, we're
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - When a financial crisis occurs, our first thought is for all those --- well, we start with ourselves --- who have lost money. That is, people who have
The Ask - If a novel is 296 pages and 200 pages of it produce more laughs per page than anything you’ve read since Shining City and it costs $16.50 on Amazon, which means
The Balthazar Cookbook, by Keith McNally - Keith McNally started with a location --- a coveted space at 80 Spring Street, in that trendy part of downtown New York known as SoHo --- and a dog-eared photo
