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NY Times Review: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Graeme in two new annotated editions. A Second Wind for Toad and his Pals. By CHARLES McGRATH / NEW YORK TIMES. The Wind in the Willows began as a bedtime story and evolved over a series of letters (reproduced in the Gauger edition) that Grahame wrote to his son, Alastair, during the long months when he was farmed out to a nanny. Alastair Grahame was born part blind (an inspiration for Mole? July 10, 2009 at 4:49 pm. The common thread in Kate Walbert&...
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Celebs: More NYTimes Nepotism
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Following up on our posts of last Wednesday and Thursday, GalleyCat gives more info:. Gawker reported on the favorable treatment of. By the husband of Times board member. Who is also the cousin of. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. A Times rep responded on July 12 to allegations in the New York Post's Page 6. We would disclose the family relationship if the author was employed by the company, a member of the board or otherwise influential in the operations of the company.".
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann | Booksbybetsey
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann. June 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm. Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009. Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with. Let the Great World Spin. Amazon Exclusive: Frank McCourt on. Let the Great World Spin. Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book,. Won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nationa...
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Boston Globe Review: ‘Towards Another Summer’ by Janet Frame. Fictional tale a fitting Frame memoir. When New Zealand author Janet Frame died in 2004 after a celebrated literary career, she left behind an intimately personal novel she wrote in 1963 but refused to have published in her lifetime, considering it too revealing. While there, Grace continually recalls her homeland, prompted by the slightest allusions, from a New Zealand wall map, to a book of native verse, to a toothache that reminds her of ha...
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New Yorker Review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘The Forger’s Spell’ by Edward Dolnick | Jimthebookfinder's Blog
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A personal selection of current and past reviews. Laquo; Amazon Best of the Month: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann. Boston Globe Book Review: Authorized Biography of Gabriel García Márquez. New Yorker Review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘The Forger’s Spell’ by Edward Dolnick. June 24, 2009. THE ART FORGER WHO BECAME A NATIONAL HERO. Bredius declared The Supper at Emmaus, the first of van Meegeren’s late counterfeits, to be. Aggrandizes the story’s abundant hooks, such as ...
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‘Crazy For the Storm’: Best of the Month at Amazon | Booksbybetsey
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8216;Crazy For the Storm’: Best of the Month at Amazon. June 22, 2009 at 3:57 am. Crazy for the Storm. The story itself could take your breath away: an 11-year-old boy, the only survivor of a small-plane crash in the San Gabriel Mountains in 1979, makes his way to safety down an icy mountain face in a blizzard, using the skills and determination he learned from his father. But it’s the way that Norman Ollestad tells his tale that makes. Crazy for the Storm. 8212; Tom Nissley. Read an excerpt from. You ar...
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Book Eclectica: New Yorker Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez and 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolnick
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009. New Yorker Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez and 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolnick. The art forger who became a national hero. Bredius declared “The Supper at Emmaus,” the first of van Meegeren’s late counterfeits, to be “ the. Lopez advances a sophisticated and troubling answer to the question that is most likely to baffle us: How could anyone, for an instant, have taken “Emmaus” to be a work by Vermeer? Lopez argues. “Folk spirit” has a lo...He had done t...
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Book Eclectica: New Yorker Review: 'The House of Wittgenstein' by Alexander Waugh
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. New Yorker Review: 'The House of Wittgenstein' by Alexander Waugh. The Wittgenstein family had a genius for misery. Wrote that “the Austrian iron and steel trade owes its rapid growth and development solely to him.”. Austria-Hungary correspondent reported from Vienna that Herr Wittgenstein would “soon have the power of fixing iron prices in Hungary also, as he fixes them in Austria.”. Does this actually work? It’s tempting to come away from the Wittgenstein saga with the t...
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Super Duper Scoops: Is This Interview Over?
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Friday, June 26, 2009. Is This Interview Over? Like every other print magazine in the world,. Continues to have problems. Their September relaunch isn't working out and, according to. The owner, Peter Brant. Is taking time away from running the magazine that Andy Warhol built to deal with his divorce from Stephanie Seymour Brant. Sounds like someone needs a Michael Jackson tribute issue. They may not have. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. ARC of the Literati.
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Super Duper Scoops: Gawker: Mark Sanford Took at Least Three Trips To Argentina at Taxpayer Expense
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Gawker: Mark Sanford Took at Least Three Trips To Argentina at Taxpayer Expense. Cajun Boy / Gawker. In his press conference today South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. Stated that he paid fully for his recent sex-trek to Argentina. But it appears as though Sanford may have a fondness for attending political junkets in that country. Sometime after his 2002 election as governor, Sanford traveled to Argentina on the dime of the South Carolina Department of Commerce. Finally, in a ...
