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Editor's Choice - 3/4/2007
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag, foreward by David Rieff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 235 pp., $23). It was, perhaps, the most controversial thing written in our time by a public intellectual of major renown: in the immediat |
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New Books - 3/4/2007
One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia DeFelice (pictures by Andrea U'Ren (Farrar Straus Giroux, $16). Only an accomplished storyteller like DeFelice could take such cliched fairy-tale ingredients (a magic pot, a poor old couple) and concoct a tale as charming and original as this one. U'Ren's dramatic pen and gouache-illustrations are perfect for the story. ••• |
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Writer still haunted by years as a boy soldier - 3/4/2007
NEW YORK - The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: |
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Literary Notes - 2/25/2007
The first meeting of the Amherst Museum Fiction Book Club will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Amherst Museum, 3755 Tonawanda Creek Road, Amherst. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton will be the topic of discussion. Advance registration is required. For more information or to register, call 689-1440 or visit www.amherstmuseum.org. |
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