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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Favorite Books
When texture and feeling and specificity is expressed so exquisitely in the prose that you feel you must understand the writer. For the New York Times’s “By the Book,” actress Gwyneth Paltrow shares her favorite authors and works of literature, and…
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Amy Bloom, Clearly and Persuasively
In the latest “By the Book” over at the New York Times, Amy Bloom talks about the books on her nightstand, which writers she’d invite to a summer picnic (even if they wouldn’t get along), and the book she wishes someone…
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A Higher Art
In his By the Book interview at the New York Times, Colson Whitehead claims he doesn’t know the name of his all-time favorite novelist: …because they never wrote anything. They had no inkling they had a knack for writing, so…
