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Our favorite reads of '08
TOM BEER I'm still faithful: Movies haven't supplanted books in my heart. But some of my favorite writing this year was about the silver screen. Entertainment Weekly columnist Mark Harris delivered a fascinating film history in "Pictures at a Revolution:...Tags: Keith Richards, Twilight (movie), Football, Susan Sontag, Werewolves
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An impressionistic array of this year's titles 2008 2008
FICTION Eye of the Beholder American Wife By Curtis Sittenfeld Random House, $26 Delicious rendering of a First Wife's choices and mistakes in life. While fiction, this intelligent novel's heroine not-so-secretly resembles Laura Bush. Cost By...Tags: Laura Bush, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Amistad, Literature, Emily Dickinson
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Special Issue: Favorite Books 2008: Fiction and Poetry
All of It Singing
New and Selected Poems
By Linda Gregg
Graywolf
Though these poems -- influenced by the poet's years in Greece -- find Gregg alone in a landscape deserted by a man, she isn't despairing but contemplative, wry, amused.
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A Mercy...Tags: Ohio, Joseph Conrad, Florida, Toni Morrison, Movies
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A Union Square house with five stepped-levels
The front of the red-brick house facing Baltimore's Union Square Park has a familiar look. The exterior of the home, with white marble steps and 9-foot-tall windows, appeared in the 1997 movie Washington Square, an adaptation of the Henry James short...Tags: Federal Hill, Baltimore Orioles, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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Bicycle builders are on a roll
In an era of global sourcing and computer-aided design, Gregory Townsend builds custom steel bicycle frames in his Monrovia garage.
The 50-year-old British expatriate, who learned metal crafting in a high school shop class, is part of a small but growing...Tags: Cycling, Metal and Mineral, Health Organizations, Sales, Small Businesses
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Viewpoint: Hillary plus Obama equals high drama
It's too early to tell what changes Sen. Hillary Clinton will bring to Barack Obama's foreign policy, but she's already had an enormous effect on his brand. Her addition to his team has turned "No Drama Obama" into "Mo' Drama Obama." Hillary's...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Nora Ephron, New Year's Day, Colin Powell, Literature
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Not Shaken, Not Stirred, Just Bewildered
In the summer of 1994, just months shy of my 40th birthday, I walked out of the movie "Speed" with a group of friends, among them the esteemed lawyer Lewis K. Wise. "You know what I liked most about that movie?" Lew began. "I was never in any doubt as to...Tags: Katie Holmes, Colin McEnroe, Keanu Reeves, Quantum of Solace (movie), Tom Cruise
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'Pajamas' is a simple tale amidst the horror
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a Holocaust fable, is meant to be a heartbreaker about the moral lessons to be gleaned from the friendship of two 8-year-olds, a Jewish concentration-camp inmate named Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) and the Nazi commandant's son,...Tags: Massacres, Charles Dickens, Values, Movies, Ethics
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The glorious, oft-overlooked, short story
"By excluding almost everything," Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the short story, "it can give perfect shape to what remains."
In his dazzling story, "The New Structure," which Harper's published earlier this year, Millhauser effectively leaves...Tags: Wisconsin, Literature, History, Philip K Dick, Halloween
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Life as Gore Vidal finds it, sans apology
Special to the Times"I guess there is something wrong with me, Mr. Beckman, because I can't for the life of me see what business it is of anyone else what I do." So says the protagonist of "The Zenner Trophy" -- an exceptionally bright young man about to be expelled from a...Tags: Mafia, Sociology, Family, Police, Paul Bowles
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Tapping into his talent
Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein Yale University Press / 224 pages / $22 Fred Astaire, writes Joseph Epstein, the veteran critic and essayist, "was the very model ... of the democratic dandy, itself an innovative figure." He adds that G. Bruce Boyer...Tags: Eleanor Powell, Marcel Proust, Family, Easter, Theodore Dreiser
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