The World According To Glenn
In his 302-page guidebook, How to Be a Man, Downtown don O'Brien drops knowledge on how to be your best
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Book Review: Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
Like his character on The West Wing, White House speechwriter Sam Seaborn, Rob Lowe stays admirably on message in his new memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends. He’s at pains to paint himself as a grounded, levelheaded man who has (mostly) successfully navigated the rapids of early fame and success, debilitating personal crises and [ read more... ]
Rock, She Wrote
The very necessary new collection of Ellen Willis’ rock ‘n’ roll essays
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April Speed Reads
This month’s literary landscape at a glance by Jeff Cretan
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Book Review: Sisters of Fortune: America’s Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
Imagine if, instead of finding defeat at the hands of the crafty, debauched Europeans, Henry James’ heroines triumphed, and found love, money and social position across the Atlantic? The result would be something like the real lives of Maryland’s Caton sisters—Marianne, Louisa, Bess and Emily, vividly recreated by biographer Jehanne Wake in Sisters of Fortune [ read more... ]
Book Review: You Know Who You Are
Ben Dolnick takes on a lot of themes in his second novel, You Know Who You Are, from the effects of losing a matriarch on a family to the ambivalent bond between brothers. But while he succeeds at some level with all of them, the greatest accomplishment of this book is Dolnick’s skillful recreation of [ read more... ]
Book Review: Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
At a time when celebrity biographies are frequently clocking in above the 500-page mark (Peter Biskind’s Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, ended at 627 pages—and that’s skipping Beatty’s pre-fame years), Stefan Kanfer’s 304-page Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart is a relief. As lean and succinct as a [ read more... ]
A Conversation with ‘The Correspondence Artist’
Talking with NYU professor Barbara Browning about her titillating new book
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Bodega Bourgeois
Ben Ryder Howe and his tales from the corner store
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March SPEED READS
This month’s literary landscape at a glance
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