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For the love of chocolate
It's not just a balm during fascism. It may also stave off dementia & reduce the risks of type 2 diabetes & heart disease. Aleksandra Crapanzano, author…
Oct 7, 2025
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How to write a thriller with your best friend
Authors Christina Baker Kline & Anne Burt became friends decades ago in the suburbs. Now, back in NYC, they've written a spine-tingling, page-turner…
Aug 31, 2025
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The path to success is paved with... siblings?
NYT journalist, Susan Dominus, believes our parents' influence is less important than that of our siblings. The Family Dynamic, her new book, maps out…
Apr 30, 2025
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Griffin Dunne takes on the family mantle
The star of AFTER HOURS--son of Dominick Dunne, nephew of Joan Didion--has written THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB, an unputtdownable memoir about love, his…
Aug 5, 2024
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Absent fathers and family fictions
Novelist Sylvia Brownrigg found a scrapbook. Its revelations forced her to extract the truth from the family fictions she'd been told her whole life…
Jul 25, 2024
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Liana Finck, Cartoonist/Philosopher/Genius
HOW TO BABY, Liana Finck's hilarious, no-advice book, provides a profound message about the ravages of parental inequality.
Jun 11, 2024
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Old Flames, New Strains
Roxana Robinson has written a brilliant novel about the complexities of late-in-life love. It felt so real, I had to speak with her to find out more…
Mar 21, 2024
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Class, Money, Privilege, and the Poor Among Us
Alissa Quart wants us to think not only about downward mobility, industry shifts, and low wage white collar jobs, but also about what not having money…
Feb 11, 2024
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Ali's Flair in Love and War
In THE BALLAD OF SPEEDBALL BABY, Ali Smith--punk rock darling turned photographer turned memoirist--sings a paean to the East Village, bad lovers…
Jan 17, 2024
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The Quietest Paperback Release Ever
If a paperback falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it even exist? (Yes! It exists! And I'm asking for your help getting it into bookstores…
Oct 23, 2023
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When a Woman Betrays a Woman
Tales of men betraying women are as old as heteronormative love and time. But when a woman betrays another woman, what does she--or rather the…
Jun 5, 2023
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The Power of Forgiveness
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her Jewish mother at 8 and was kicked out of her evangelical father's home at 16 after years of physical abuse. What she did…
May 30, 2023
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