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Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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Risk

A Novel

Colin Harrison

An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments--each plays a part in Colin Harrison's compelling new intrigue George...

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The Paris Review Interviews, IV

The Paris Review

With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the...

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The Secret Life of Words

How English Became English

Henry Hitchings

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the...

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Out Stealing Horses

A Novel

Per Petterson; Translated by Anne Born

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY...

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Gilead

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing

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November 16, 2009

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE movie premieres in New York -- listen to author Rebecca Miller discuss the book on Leonard Lopate

Rebecca Miller discusses her book/screenplay for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee on WNYC's Leonard Lopate. The movie has become a major Hollywood event -- see pictures from the NYC premiere here.

November 10, 2009

Trailer for Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing Released

The trailer for Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, directed by Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (The Garden), has been released. For more information about Raj and the book, see RajPatel.org and become a fan of Raj on Facebook.

October 20, 2009

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, based on Rebecca Miller's novel, hits theaters November 27th

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Maria Bello, Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder, will make its debut November 27th.

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A Wall in Palestine

René Backmann, Translated by A. Kaiser

The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete...

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The Journey of Little Gandhi

Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar

"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."--Laila Lalami, Los...

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The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Reborn ends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.
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