One day, while living with her husband in London, Elisabeth Payne Rosen spilled her groceries in front of the Duke of York’s Barracks on King’s Road and in a flash of inspiration, decided that she wanted to know everything about the American Civil War. Rosen’s ensuing research is presented in her first novel “Hallam’s Warâ€â€”the [...]
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Jan
Best Movies of 2007, Best Music Albums of 2007, Best Political Blunders of 2007 — it’s not December without a slew of Best Of lists populating your favorite newspapers and periodicals. In honor of this tradition, here is my list of the Five Best Books of 2007.
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Falling Man by Don DeLillo [...]
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Jan
NEW YORK — Pardon the cliché, but if I had a dollar for every person who tells me they’re no longer making New Year’s resolutions because they break them by mid-January, I’d be writing this from my villa in Tuscany. To this life coach, that attitude reeks of self-fulfilling prophecy.
That’s not to say resolutions have [...]
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Dec
(Page 2 of 3)LUIS ALBERTO URREA (Naperville, Ill.-Mexico)Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist for 2007’s “The Devil’s Highway,” he’s finishing a “comedic epic novel” about immigration. “I’ll embark on ummingbird’s Daughter II’ [a followup to his best-selling 2006 novel] and complete the editing on a new volume of poems.”PICK: “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue,” Manuel Muoz: [...]
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