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The Stranger in the Woods

May 30, 2018

stranger

In case this news slipped by you, as it did me: In 2013 a man was apprehended at a children’s summer camp in northern Maine stealing food and supplies. Not particularly interesting except that when asked by the police he can tell them his birth date, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: biography, book clubs, Knopf, life, New England

The Coincidence Makers

March 5, 2018

coincidence

  He always loved this warm sensation, which nearly permeated the bone, during the minute preceding the execution of a mission. It was the sensation that came from knowing he was about to reach out a finger and nudge the planet, or the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, fantasy, life, St. Martin's Press

When Breath Becomes Air

December 13, 2017

breath

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: debut, life, memoir, Random House

Fear of Dying: A Novel

September 23, 2015

fear of dying

  It has been so long since I read Fear of Flying that I can’t claim to remember anything about it, except being left with the feeling ‘wow, that is one gutsy author’, writing about sex and relationships in a way I’d never read before. The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, dying, life, marriage, St. Martin's Press

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