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Why Books Aren’t Dead Yet

July 11, 2010

I spent my undergrad years painting dorm rooms to pay my tuition and graduated from college in 1976. I then decided it was high time to get an education,1 so I set about reading all of the books that I never had time to read while I was a working student. I lined the walls [...]

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2007 National Book Awards

November 15, 2007

Fiction Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (Winner!) Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski Varieties of Disturbance: Stories, by Lydia Davis Then We Came To The End, by Josua Ferris Like You’d Understand Anway, by Jim Shepard Nonfiction Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,, by Tim Weiner (Winner!) Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat God [...]

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10 Best Books of 2007 – New York Times

November 14, 2007

The 10 Best Books of 2007 – New York Times. 100 Notable Books of 2007 – New York Times.

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2006 National Book Awards

December 5, 2006

Fiction The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers (Winner!) Only Revolutions: A Novel, by Mark Z. Danielewski A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, by Ken Kalfus Eat The Document: A Novel, by Dana Spiotta The Zero, by Jess Walter Nonfiction The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan (Winner!) At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, [...]

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The 10 Best Books of 2006 – New York Times

December 1, 2006

I’ll get these up on the Readers’ Page, together with the National Book Award finalists and winners at the earliest opportunity. The 10 Best Books of 2006 – New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year – New York Times

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