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NY Times Books- Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’ November 20, 2009Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
- Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll November 19, 2009In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.By DAVE ITZKOFF
- Colum McCann Wins National Book Award November 19, 2009Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.By MOTOKO RICH
- Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down November 19, 2009Paul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.By PATRICIA COHEN
- Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage November 19, 2009This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.By JANET MASLIN
- Newly Released Books November 19, 2009Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.By AMY VIRSHUP
- F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel November 18, 2009While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.By DAVE ITZKOFF
- National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category November 18, 2009A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.By MOTOKO RICH
- Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift November 18, 2009A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.By DWIGHT GARNER
- Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers November 18, 2009Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.By MOTOKO RICH and BRAD STONE
- Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’ November 20, 2009
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- Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 November 16, 2009This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more.
- Children's Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 November 16, 2009In this week's children's book reviews: picture books from Peter McCarty, David McPhail, Sandra Boynton, and Arnold and Adrianne Lobel; fiction from Iain Lawrence, Mike Lupica, James Patterson, and Peter Lerangis; and a round-up of the latest pop-up books to hit the market.
- Fiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 November 16, 2009Reviewed this week, new fiction from Joshua Ferris, T. Jefferson Parker, Stuart Woods, A.L. Kennedy, and Jayne Anne Krentz. Plus, Peter Bognanni chronicles a punk-rock-in-an-Iowa-geodesic-dome adolescence, the aliens arrive in Evan Mandery's smart and funny romp, Bob Morris finds more trouble in the Sunshine State, and Bernard Cornwell delivers another […]
- Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 November 16, 2009This week: stars for a look at Fidel Castro by Ann Louise Bardach, Todd McLeish basking with endangered New England sea creatures, a fresh look at problem solving from Ian Mitroff and Abraham Silvers, trial lawyer Terrence Mix on fertility drugs, a women's career guide by Linda Tarr-Whelan, and more. Plus new books on Molly Ivins, Paulo Coelho, Georgia […]
- PW Talks with Raj Patel November 16, 2009"We need to shun the idea that the only way we can shape the world is through our consumption choices."
- PW Talks with Joshua Ferris November 16, 2009"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
- PW Pick of the Week: Family Britain by David Kynaston November 16, 2009Hail Britannia
- Nonfiction Reviews November 9, 2009Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
- Children's Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 November 9, 2009
- Fiction Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 November 9, 2009Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Carey, Alexander McCall Smith, Katherine Center, John Lescroat, and Lori Lansens. Plus, Lindsey Davis takes on the English civil war, Ann Mah sends an out-of-work journo to Beijing, James Greer plots a clever caper, and John McNally digs into writerly envy.
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