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Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.
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Book
Use
Using Me
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'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.
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Satisfying
Wonderfully
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Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
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Behavior
Good Behavior
Tv
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I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
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Heroic
Reading Books
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I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.
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Web
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I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
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Readers
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Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?
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Life Is
Life Is Full Of Surprises
Surprise
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Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.
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Eagles
Eye
Tweet
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A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
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Plenty
Seventh
Tenth
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'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
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Blue
Loss
Nights
Wrenching
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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
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Fall
Flames
Letters
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One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.
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Jewels
Reading
Testicles
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Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.
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Women Are
Activists
Positions
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Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
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Trapped
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For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
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World War Ii
Offered
World War
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'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.
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Deceptive
Irresistible
Momentum
Notes
Scandal
Subtle
Thrilling
Tone
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I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.
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Dinner
Dates
Neighbors
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If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.
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Reading
Reading Books
Time Your Anything
Anything Else
Pretend
Spend
Room
Time Reading
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Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
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Coming Of Age
Liberated
Sixties
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One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'
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Breathless
Compassion
Generosity
Grass
Innocence
Passages
Exuberant
Leaves
Poem
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a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
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Gone
Letters
Mean
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In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.
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Bulls
Guidelines
Interrogation
Notes
Scholar
Dante
Stunted
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I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
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Austen
Decades
Fortunate
Jane
Thirty
Unhappiness
Sparing
Thus
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I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?
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Blessing
Distraction
Online
Shopping
Web
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All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.
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Mind
Wall
Years
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'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.
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Austen
Complicated
Irresistible
Jane
Novel
Favorite
Period
Heroine
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Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.
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Cricket
New York City
Times Square
Me City New
Garth
George
Illustrated
Square
Williams
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In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.
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Academic
Comedy
Humanity
Novel
Pleasure
Beyond
Simply
Ignoring
Institution
Pictures
Transcend
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I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.
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Book
Naps
Night
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Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.
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Mother
Sex
Smart
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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.
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Awe
Studied
Way Never Something
Alice
Approaching
Breathed
Cherished
Contemporaries
Gazed
Handled
Lovingly
Revered
Turned
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Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.
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Avenues
Goldman Sachs
Isle
Manhattan
Odds
Rich
Sandy
Sparkling
Streets
Tomorrow
Above
Surge
Crashed
Drowned
Flooded
Hurricane
Onto
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There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.
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Lectures
Lessons
Moral
Nuance
Passion
Pretentious
Sacrifice
Craft
Hides
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The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.
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Morning
Sweet
Wild Roses
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Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
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Clay
Heartfelt
Pittsburgh
Policemen
Realism
Yiddish
Adventures
Michael
Mysteries
Playful
Union
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... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.
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Men
Mother And Son
Mother Son
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read.
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Book
Pie
Writing
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