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Nancy’s fragile solidity was formed through the volcanic eruptions of her rage and heartbreak, cooled too quickly by the necessities of life and left in what resembled a fixed form.
Lola Milholland • Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk.
Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
The Paris Library: A Novel
If All the Seas Were Ink,
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
was built like a two-by-four and dressed like an extra in The Mighty Ducks, but I knew beauty when I saw it. It was in a bottle of bleach and boobs that looked like overfilled water balloons.
Nora McInerny • Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
one of his best-selling authors, Willard Huntington Wright, better known to hundreds of thousands of readers as S. S. Van Dine.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Gossip was the currency of our former lives, before we found our way to this quiet corner of Maine. Ben Diamond was the first to plant a flag here, nine years ago. He’d retired early to take care of his ailing wife, and his search for the perfect town pointed him here, to the village of Purity. It had everything he required: a bookstore, a decent t
... See moreTess Gerritsen • The Spy Coast
those old Nehru jackets.