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Category: Books and Literature
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What Happens on Page 76 in This Season’s New Books?
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Book Review: ‘Y/N,’ by Esther Yi
The New York Times – Music:In Esther Yi’s weird and wondrous ‘Y/N,’ a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul.
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Overlooked No More: Dilys Winn, Who Brought Murder and Mystery to Manhattan
The New York Times – Business:She opened Murder Ink, believed to be the nation’s first mystery bookstore, and brought fans together through interactive whodunits and other events.
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How to Read the Oscars Red Carpet
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:Tracking the history of moviedom’s biggest night, a new book examines the glamour, societal changes and bloopers embodied in 95 years of step-and-repeat.
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4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:New reading relates the history of mirrors, patchwork and a monumental teahouse, plus the struggle to make design more just.
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The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know
The New York Times – T Magazine:A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive.
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Judy Blume Finally Got a ‘Yes’ From Hollywood
The New York Times – Business:Decades after she first discussed translating her work to film and television, the Blume-aissance is upon us. All it needed was for Judy Blume fans to take charge in the entertainment industry.
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‘Media Men’ List Defamation Lawsuit Ends in a Settlement
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:Stephen Elliott, whose name appeared on a crowdsourced document containing allegations of misconduct against male writers and editors, filed his defamation suit against the list’s creator and its contributors in 2018.
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‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic
The New York Times – Movies:At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
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Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature.