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Four Memoirs by Women, Jan. 2013: Rebecca Dana, Robin Quivers, Rosie Schaap,...

Dana, Rebecca. Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story. Amy Einhorn Bks: Putnam. Jan. 2013. 288p. ISBN 9780399158773. $25.95. MEMOIR Dana made it from Pittsburgh to Yale to the Big Apple and...

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Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2013, Pt. 4: Tracy Kidder, Michelle Rhee, Ali...

Beller, Rachel. Rachel Beller’s Eat To Lose, Eat To Win: Skinny Done Right‚ Shop To Drop Pounds with the Nutritionist Who Gets It. Morrow. Jan. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9780062231819. $24.99; eISBN...

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Fiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 2: Debut Novels, Including Roger Hobbs’s...

Amin, Manisha Jolie. Dancing to the Flute. Atria: S. & S. Feb. 2013. NAp. ISBN 9781451672046. pap. $15. CD/downloadable: S. & S. Audio. POP FICTION Born in Kenya to Indian parents, Amin grew up...

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Barbara’s Picks, Mar. 2013, Pt. 1: Hamid, Hemon, Haruf, Oates, & More

Hamid, Mohsin. How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Mar. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9781594487293. $26.95. LITERARY FICTION The title could come from one of those get-rich-quick...

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Barbara’s Picks, Apr. 2013, Pt. 3: Aciman, Margulis, Roach, Tremain, Wolitzer

  Aciman, André. Harvard Square. Norton. Apr. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780393088601. $25.95. LITERARY FICTION From vivid, scalding Alexandria (Out of Egypt: A Memoir) to the sensuous Italian Riviera (Call Me...

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Nonfiction Previews, Jul. 2013, Pt. 1: Klosterman, Kurlansky, and...

Biskind, Peter, ed. My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. Metropolitan: Holt. Jul. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9780805097252. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805097269. CD: Macmillan...

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Goodbye 2012: Terrific Story Collections and Small-Press Bests

So many eye-popping short story collections, so many revelatory small-press literary novels, and such little space on those end-of-the-year Best lists. Fortunately, I have a venue for featuring Best...

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Nonfiction Previews, Sept. 2013, the Last Roundup: From Mary Beard to Eileen...

Beard, Mary. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations. Liveright: Norton. Sept. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780871407160. $28.95. HISTORY Described by the New York Times as “the closest...

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Barbara’s Picks, Oct. 2013, Pt. 2: Fiction from Daniel Alarcón, James Franco,...

Alarcón, Daniel. At Night We Walk in Circles. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Oct. 2013. 400p. ISBN 9781594631719. $27.95. LITERARY A PEN/Hemingway finalist and one of The New Yorker’s 20 under 40,...

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Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks, Nov. 2013, Pt. 2: Jung Chang, Nora Ephron, Wil S....

Chang, Jung. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Knopf. Nov. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780307271600. $30. BIOGRAPHY First a Red Guard, then the recipient of a doctoral degree in...

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