Book Review: Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Written by Mark Peikert on September 1, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books, NY Press Exclusive

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Imagine, if you will, a Mary Gaitskill story collection in which the author casts a fond eye on the foibles and bad behavior of her characters. That book is Elissa Schappell’s Blueprints for Building Better Girls, a collection of eight sharp, meticulously etched and tenuously linked tales of female archetypes
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Book Review: Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

Written by Mark Peikert on August 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books, NY Press Exclusive

There are few sub-genres of nonfiction more satisfying than the bizarre event recounted in the context of much larger themes. Timothy Egan, who has chronicled both the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the wildfires of 1910 that prompted a widespread conservation movement, is the master of transforming history lessons into gripping page-turners. New York
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Book Review: City of Promise

Written by Mark Peikert on August 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books, NY Press Exclusive

When was the last time your heart started pounding as you read a novel? Or learned something you didn’t know about Manhattan’s history? If you can’t remember, run, don’t walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling’s compulsively readable City of Promise
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Bookstores with Nooks, Not a Nook

Written by Kimberly Lightbody on August 18, 2011. Posted in Books, Posts

Three mom-and-pop bookshops remain comfortably old-fashioned
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Book Review: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

Written by Emilia Barrosse on August 12, 2011. Posted in Books, Posts

Emilia Barrosse reviews Ben Loory's new story collection
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Book Review: Rules of Civility

Written by admin on August 11, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Books

Late in Rules of Civility, Amor Towles’ accomplished debut, Katey Kontent defends Great Expectations against an acquaintance who prefers Virginia Woolf. It’s an ironic preference. Ten pages later this acquaintance is revealed to be Katey’s secret benefactor, and she’s perhaps most responsible for making this new Jazz Age novel owe just as much to Dickens
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