An ancient band of vampires camouflaged in the trappings of middle America and roving the interstates in search of special children to prey on, a protagonist tortured by alcoholism and past traumas both supernatural and self-inflicted, a little girl wielding an awesome and terrible power — these are the ingredients of Stephen King’s newest novel, […]
Anthony Correale
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The Power of Habit
Habit is the basic substrate of our lives, so basic that its influence is easy to ignore. The Power of Habit tries to peek behind the curtain and reveal the mechanisms of habit — so that readers can grab the levers for themselves and take control. The book begins with a story of someone who […]
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Tenth of December
Few American short story writers have garnered as much respect or as many accolades as George Saunders has over the last couple of decades. A darling of The New Yorker and a frequent recipient of national story writing awards, Saunders has come to epitomize certain aspects of the turn-of-the-century American psyche. With his 1996 debut, […]
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This is How You Lose Her – Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz’s last work, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won him a well-deserved Pulitzer. His new collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, sidesteps the problem of topping that insurmountable work by abandoning the epic for the episodic. For a Pulitzer Prize winner, Díaz is startlingly self-deprecating. To hear him […]
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Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
During Malcolm Gladwell’s decade and a half tenure at The New Yorker, he’s demonstrated a talent — in his regular articles and in books like 2000’s The Tipping Point — for synthesizing insights from seemingly unrelated fields and for challenging conventional wisdom. In Outliers he applies his far-ranging approach to dispelling the widespread belief that […]