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Who wrote the book on work? Lots of peopleJan 2, 2014Earlier this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 144 million people were employed in the United States ― people who are making a living, keeping the country going, stoking the engine ...
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Walter Mosley makes an e-book, ‘Odyssey’Dec 26, 2013Mosley’s conceptual book puts empathy as the key factor, blindness as the most stirring stuff to tell the real story of the inner life. -
Poetic sketches evoke solitudeDec 26, 2013Drawings By Sylvia Plath (Harper) The most striking thing about the 44 images reproduced in Sylvia Plath’s “Drawings” may be how unpopulated they are. Produced during the two years the poet spent... -
‘Unbound’ explores Roth’s standingDec 26, 2013Roth Unbound By Claudia Roth Pierpont (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) If you’ve been tempted to dismiss Philip Roth as a misogynist, a self-hating Jew or simply an old white male dinosaur, Claudia Rot... -
Family connections and small momentsDec 26, 2013“A poem is not so much read as navigated,” Nikki Giovanni writes in “Chasing Utopia.” “We go from point to point discovering a new horizon, a shift of light or laughter, an exhilaration of newness th... -
Choe’s essays released posthumouslyDec 25, 2013“Nunmul (Tears)” by the late Choe In-ho was released on Dec. 24. (Yeobaek) The literary remains of the late novelist Choe In-ho (1945-2013) were published on Tuesday, three months after his death. ... -
Author Bae’s short story published on Amazon’s ‘Day One’ JournalDec 24, 2013Author Bae Su-ah. (LTI Korea) The English translation of Korean author Bae Su-ah’s short story “Highway with Green Apples” has been published in “Day One,” Amazon’s digital literary journal dedicate... -
James McBride tells how he resurrected John Brown in ‘Good Lord Bird’Dec 19, 2013Author and musician James McBride browses through jazz music during a stop in Chicago. (MCT) Conjure the image of John Brown in your head and you see the fearsome emancipator, a righteous prophet wh... -
A ‘downstairs’ history of EnglandDec 19, 2013Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times By Lucy Lethbridge (W.W. Norton & Company) Fictional Downton Abbey is supposed to be one of the grandest house... -
There’s nothing cute about this ELFDec 19, 2013Going Dark By James W. Hall (Minotaur) Fatherhood has not come easily to Thorn, the taciturn hero making his 13th appearance in James W. Hall’s series. Still, it’s easy to cut the Key Largo loner... -
‘Millennium’ trilogy to get fourth installmentDec 18, 2013STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― The worldwide hit crime trilogy “Millennium” by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson will have a fourth installment, Sweden’s Norstedts Publishing Group said Tuesday. “We have now...
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Korean-American writer talks about her debut novelDec 16, 2013Korean edition of Susan Ee’s fantasy novel ‘Angelfall’released -
Book recounts Depression-era mysteryDec 12, 2013The Maid’s Version By Daniel Woodrell (Little, Brown and Company) In his first novel in seven years, Daniel Woodrell, author of the acclaimed “Winter’s Bone” (2006) and “The Outlaw Album (2011),” ... -
An improbable woman of mysteryDec 12, 2013Stella Bain By Anita Shreve (Little, Brown) There’s no doubt that public education has neglected World War I, with history teachers squeezing in a few lectures before launching into succeeding con... -
Suggestions for the readers on your gift listDec 12, 2013(from left) “LuxeFashion: A Tribute to the World’s most Enduring Labels” by Caroline Cox (Running Press) targets fashion and luxury readers., “Roy G. Biv: An Exceedingly Surprising Book about Color” ...
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