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Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an 'unprecedented' 2024

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Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an 'unprecedented' 2024 NPR "Unprecedented" surely was one of the most popular words of 2024 so it's fitting that my best books list begins with an "unprecedented" occurrence: two novels by authors who happen to be married to each other. Purchase BookCreation Lake by Rachel Kushner close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase …

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The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 1

LA Times

James by Percival Everett An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne The “Braiding Sweetgrass” author on gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to take from the natural world. Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik In the journalist’s provocative new work, Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters provide a window into …

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1 month ago

The past lives on in the present | Review of ‘Tell Me Everything’ by Elizabeth Strout

The Hindu

Did Elizabeth Strout write her Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton novels so that she would one day get to narrate Tell Me Everything? But first, let’s turn our minds back to 2009 when Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 stories set in small-town Crosby, Maine. In her newest, Tell Me Everything, Strout brings together …

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The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 24

LA Times

James by Percival Everett An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates The National Book Award winner travels to three sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell, …

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The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 10

LA Times

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway A new novel set in the world of John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates The National Book Award winner travels to three sites of conflict to explore how the stories …

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The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 3

LA Times

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway A new novel set in the world of John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley. War by Bob Woodward The Pulitzer winner’s account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. …

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2 months ago

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 27

LA Times

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig A retired math teacher comes to terms with her past after she’s gifted a run-down house on a Mediterranean island. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates The National Book Award winner travels to three sites of conflict …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Politics: Ahead of the election, Harris tries to appeal to Black and Hispanic voters, with help from Obama

Slate

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’s voter outreach to black and Hispanic men; the close races for Republican senators in Nebraska, Texas, and Florida; and the conspiracy theories that endanger FEMA and aid for hurricane victims. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Breakfast Club Power: We The People: An Audio …

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2 months, 1 week ago

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 20

LA Times

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. Playground by Richard Powers The Pacific Ocean-set novel explores one of the last wild places we have yet to colonize. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp. The Message …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Election: The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is too close for voters

Slate

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the close race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump; Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency; and Hurricanes Helene and Milton and climate change. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell for The Washington Post: Part of Harris’s …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 13

LA Times

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig A retired math teacher comes to terms with her past after she’s gifted a run-down house on a Mediterranean island. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman “The Thursday Murder Club” author returns with a fresh cast …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Elections: JD Vance and Tim Walz debate, but Trump's guy can't play nice forever

Slate

This week, Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times joins John Dickerson and David Plotz to discuss the vice-presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance; the deadly conflict between Israel and Iran with Nathan Guttman of Israeli public television; and the federal indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Here are some notes and references from …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Elections: Comments on a porn message board could tank Republican Mark Robinson's election chances

Slate

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss what’s happening with the Kamala Harris v. Donald Trump race, what to expect with the Tim Walz v. JD Vance debate, how crazy Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign in North Carolina has become, and whether college can survive careerism. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Yash Roy …

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3 months, 1 week ago

The week’s bestselling books, Sept. 22

LA Times

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner A seductive and cunning American woman infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. The Life Impossible by Matt Haig A retired math teacher comes to terms with her past after she’s gifted a run-down house on a Mediterranean island. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune The sequel to the author’s beloved fantasy novel “The House …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Oprah Winfrey reveals her latest book club pick

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Oprah Winfrey names Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ as her latest book club pick

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick will be a story of familiar faces — in more ways than one. “Elizabeth Strout welcomes us home again, back to the small town where we witness the interconnection of all the characters we’ve ever loved in her previous novels,” Winfrey said in a statement. “It’s a beautiful read reminding us …

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5 months ago

Here's where a fourth-generation lobsterman goes for lobster rolls in Maine

BBC

Here's where a fourth-generation lobsterman goes for lobster rolls in Maine Getty Images Heather Strout Thompson has been hauling lobster since traps were wooden. The best off the boat: Chipman's Wharf, Milbridge From the rooftop restaurant of Chipman's Wharf, overlooking a working waterfront, a lobster roll has never tasted sweeter, says Thompson. Getty Images Taste of Maine in Woolwich is …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Book Review: Solitary writer ruminates on grief, love and writing during pandemic’s first spring

Associated Press

The flood of pandemic literature shows no sign of letting up. Now Sigrid Nunez, author of “Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag” and the National Book Award-winning “The Friend,” has written a pandemic novel called “The Vulnerables.” The title refers to the groups of people, including the elderly, considered at high risk of getting severely ill at the start …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Youth Bowling Coach And 'Hero' Bar Manager Are Among The Maine Shooting Victims

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LOADING ERROR LOADING The 18 people killed in two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, included a 14-year-old bowler, a shipbuilder who loved playing the game of cornhole and a sign language interpreter. Asked Thursday if he’d consider it now, he said, “Someone’s got to step back in.” MICHAEL DESLAURIERS Michael Deslauriers’ father told CBS News that his son was one …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, talking to Anuradha Roy, Akram’s ‘Sultan’ and more - The Hindu

The Hindu

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. In a pre-launch interview with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said he wanted to emphasise how the palace’s relationship with the British tabloids, and its policy of “briefings, leakings and plantings,” …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Review of Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy by the Sea: Life amid the old and new

The Hindu

When writers around the world were asked to contribute to an anthology on COVID-19, And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, Majed Abusalama said the lockdown brought on by the virus was an experience he had lived through during the Intifada in Palestine years ago. In Elizabeth Strout’s new book Lucy by the Sea, the eponymous protagonist leaves …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Speaking truth through fiction: the Booker contenders

The Hindu

Coetzee won his second Booker Prize for Disgrace in 1999, a novel about truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, he said it was “the ultimate prize to win in the English speaking world.” He would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, but it’s a fact that the buzz around the Booker Prize is usually louder. She …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

The Hindu

Watch | Booker Prize 2022 contenders From a longlist of 13 books, six novels made it to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. And it includes the shortest book and oldest author ever to be nominated, besides “writers from five countries and a wealth of fabulous fiction”, as the Booker website states. “I thought a ghost story would be an interesting …

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2 years, 3 months ago

U.S. authors Elizabeth Strout, Percival Everett among Booker Prize finalists

The Hindu

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Ms. Strout’s symphony of everyday lives “Oh William!” and Mr. Everett’s powerful novel about racism and police violence, “The Trees,” are on a shortlist announced on September 6 for the 50,000 pound prize. …

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Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an 'unprecedented' 2024

The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 1

The past lives on in the present | Review of ‘Tell Me Everything’ by Elizabeth Strout

The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 24

The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 10

The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 3

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 27

Politics: Ahead of the election, Harris tries to appeal to Black and Hispanic voters, with help from Obama

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 20

Election: The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is too close for voters

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 13

Elections: JD Vance and Tim Walz debate, but Trump's guy can't play nice forever

Elections: Comments on a porn message board could tank Republican Mark Robinson's election chances

The week’s bestselling books, Sept. 22

Oprah Winfrey reveals her latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey names Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ as her latest book club pick

Here's where a fourth-generation lobsterman goes for lobster rolls in Maine

Book Review: Solitary writer ruminates on grief, love and writing during pandemic’s first spring

Youth Bowling Coach And 'Hero' Bar Manager Are Among The Maine Shooting Victims

Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, talking to Anuradha Roy, Akram’s ‘Sultan’ and more - The Hindu

Review of Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy by the Sea: Life amid the old and new

Speaking truth through fiction: the Booker contenders

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

U.S. authors Elizabeth Strout, Percival Everett among Booker Prize finalists