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'Our Little Secret' is remarkable debut by Roz Nay

Thursday, 31 May 2018, 10:16 Last update: about 7 years ago

"Our Little Secret: a Novel" (St. Martin's Press), by Roz Nay Ten years ago, in the little town of Cove, Vermont, a quiet girl named Angela Petitjean fell in love with the dashing captain of the...

In 'Avengers: Infinity War,' Marvel goes nuclear

Monday, 28 May 2018, 10:29 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

After 10 years of lean, threadbare, Lilliputian tales, Marvel Studios has, thank heavens, finally decided to go big. The scale of "Avengers: Infinity War," of course, isn't a departure for...

Sheila E. wants to write more, expand book to film

Friday, 3 October 2014, 12:59 Last update: about 11 years ago

Days before the release of Sheila E.'s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn't get nearly as much attention. "Pretty much, I was...

'Do Fathers Matter?' says something new

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:41 Last update: about 11 years ago

From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that virtually nothing escapes...

Brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:36 Last update: about 11 years ago

When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could...

Book of NY 'objects' sure to spark debate

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:34 Last update: about 11 years ago

This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops. Stoop is object No. 40, in fact, in this book that needs no...

Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal

Tuesday, 30 September 2014, 20:29 Last update: about 11 years ago

The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis' aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, "The Betrayers." The first involves Baruch Kotler, a 64-year-old Israeli politician who cheated...

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