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  • THE PIANO PLAYER IN THE BROTHEL
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    THE PIANO PLAYER IN THE BROTHEL
    JUAN LUIS CEBRIÁN
    “The first director of the Spanish newspaper El País, offers his reflections on the state of the press in pithy essays peppered with quips and aphorisms” (The New Yorker).   For veteran journalist Juan Luis Cebrián, there is wisdom in the old joke that it is better to be anything other than a journalist, including a piano player in a brothel. In this incisive collection of essa...

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  • CHOKING ON MARLON BRANDO
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    CHOKING ON MARLON BRANDO
    ANTONIA QUIRKE
    In this witty and bittersweet memoir, the film critic shares her misadventures as a lover of film stars who seeks movie romance in the real world.   Antonia Quirke was ten years old when she first saw Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the first film she ever saw, and her reaction was so intense that her parents called an ambulance. So began her lifelong love of ...

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  • LOOKING FOR JIMMY
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    LOOKING FOR JIMMY
    PETER QUINN
    “[An] exceptionally thoughtful and interesting inquiry into Irish America . . . More a meditation than a history” from the acclaimed author of Dry Bones (The Washington Post).   In the hands of historical novelist and speechwriter Peter Quinn, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way to an image of “Jimmy”—an archetypal Irish American (a composite of Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Wal...

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  • THE CUBAN PROSPECT
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    THE CUBAN PROSPECT
    BRIAN SHAWVER
    From the author of Aftermath: “A nervy debut . . . A Heart of Darkness set deep in the bowels of the major-league farm system” (Chicago Tribune).   With compassionate intensity and great heart, Brian Shawver, in his powerful debut novel, tells the story of Dennis Birch, a thirty-four-year old failed major league ball player turned minor league scout whose field of dreams has al...

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  • THE WAR AT THE SHORE
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    THE WAR AT THE SHORE
    RICHARD D. "SKIP" BRONSON / ANDREW MEISLER / A. M. SILVER
    “With Trump and Wynn, Skip Bronson nails the drama and muscle of a Super Bowl Sunday . . . A manual of strategy and tactics, smeared with sweat and blood” (Steve Tisch, chairman of the New York Giants).   From 1995 to 2000, two of the world’s best-known companies―Mirage Resorts and Trump Resorts―run by two of the most flamboyant businessmen of our time, fought a bare-knuckled, ...

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  • KINGS OF THE GRAIL
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    KINGS OF THE GRAIL
    MARGARITA TORRES SEVILLA / JOSÉ MIGUEL ORTEGA DEL RÍO
    “Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly).   Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been kept for the past one thousand years. Their discovery led Margarita Torres Sevilla and ...

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  • ON FURTHER REFLECTION
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    ON FURTHER REFLECTION
    JONATHAN MILLER
    This collection of entertaining and enlightening writings from the famous comedian, neurologist, and intellectual is “dazzling from beginning to end” (Oliver Sacks).   Actor, doctor, sculptor, TV personality, director of both film and opera—Sir Jonathan Miller’s career covers a vast range of artistic and intellectual pursuits. But common amongst all of these trades is Miller’s ...

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  • THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS
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    THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS
    MATT ZOLLER SEITZ / ALAN SEPINWALL
    New York Times–Bestseller: “The authors’ interviews with Chase are endlessly illuminating . . . the definitive celebration of a show that made history.” —Kirkus Reviews On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of...

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  • HOT, COLD, HEAVY, LIGHT, 100 ART WRITINGS 1988–2018
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    HOT, COLD, HEAVY, LIGHT, 100 ART WRITINGS 1988–2018
    PETER SCHJELDAHL
    100 key writings from spanning across thirty years of the acclaimed New Yorker art critic’s career. Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 100 key writings by Peter Schjeldahl spinning thirty years, his last twenty as the art critic of the New Yorker. In this unfailingly lucid guide to an art world in constant, dramatic flux, Schjeldahl addresses new artists and Old Masters with the ...

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  • THE FOURTH OF JULY AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA
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    THE FOURTH OF JULY AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA
    PETER DE BOLLA
    A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).   Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But one day unites all Americans: the Fourth of July. Every year, Independence Day revelers ma...

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  • WE WERE THERE
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    WE WERE THERE
    ROBERT FOX
    “Fox’s first-rate treasury of reportage, diaries, oral history, and even fiction frames a scintillating panorama of the 20th century’s decisive moments” (Financial Times).   Covering two world wars, exploration, scientific discoveries, and the rise and fall of empires across the globe, We Were There reports on the defining moments of the previous hundred years, from the turn of...

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  • REPORTING AMERICA
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    REPORTING AMERICA
    ALISTAIR COOKE
    Over fifty years of reportage from one of the twentieth-century’s greatest broadcasters, showcasing his “masterly discursive approach and splendid humor” (The Independent).   Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved radio show, Letter From America, saw eleven presidents, four wars, and an incredible shift in culture. He adored the United ...

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