Literature
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Review: A memoir of a friend and a Knicks fan for the ages
Oct 26, 2020 7:00 am - 'œOur Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship,'ť by Harvey Araton (Penguin Press) In 2018, the sportswriter Harvey Araton wrote an obituary for The New York Times ab...
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Review: Despite changes, Jack Reacher stays the good course
Oct 26, 2020 7:00 am - 'œThe Sentinel,'ť by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Delacorte Press) The cover of 'œThe Sentinel,'ť the 25th thriller in the wildly popular Jack Reacher series, declares t...
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Book Review: Peter Frampton looks back in a gentle memoir
Oct 26, 2020 7:00 am - Peter Frampton, 'œDo You Feel Like I Do?'ť (Hachette Books) When Peter Frampton was a child, he busted his father on Christmas morning giving him an acoustic guitar dres...
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Beyond 'The Shining': Our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntings
Oct 25, 2020 11:00 pm - As the leaves fall and pumpkins decorate porches, is there anything more Halloweeny than haunted houses? Literature is full of abodes fit for the creepy, from Shirley Ja...
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Book review: Cary Grant bio a perceptive look at a captivating star
Oct 25, 2020 7:00 am - “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise” by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster) Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming ...
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Book review: A brilliant glimpse of every lightsaber that matters
Oct 24, 2020 7:28 am - "Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection" by Daniel Wallace; illustrated by Lukasz Liszko and Ryan Valle (Insight Editions) You never forget your first lightsaber. Whe...
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Rocker Lenny Kravitz looks back to when he found his voice
Oct 21, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Lenny Kravitz is a man of extremes - as he readily admits. "I am deeply two-sided: black and white, Jewish and Christian, Manhattan and Brooklynite," he write...
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Review: Cary Grant bio a perceptive look at captivating star
Oct 20, 2020 7:00 am - 'œCary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise'ť by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster) Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming Hollywood lege...
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Book review: Charting Kendrick Lamar's evolution from platinum-selling rapper to protest artist
Oct 20, 2020 6:00 am - "The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America" by Marcus J. Moore (Atria Books) One night during the wrenching summer of 2015, a Cleve...
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Book review: A poignant, and fab, mosaic of the Beatles
Oct 19, 2020 6:00 am - "150 Glimpses of the Beatles" by Craig Brown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) "They ARE awful. But I also think they're fabulous. Let's just go and say hello." What if y...