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No sleep till the end of ‘The Bell Jar’
Last Sunday night, Catherine Spino hosted her second annual marathon reading of “The Bell Jar” at Night Club 101 in the East Village. She had selected 40 people — writers, teachers, actors, and a visual artist among them — to read live for 10-minute increments apiece.
LOVE LETTERS
This week’s ACOTAR frenzy explained. Sort of.
New to the Night Court, or returning after a few years away? Here's your primer for Sarah J. Maas’s “A Court of Splintered Harmony,” the latest in a romantasy series that has sold millions of copies.
STORY BEHIND THE BOOK
She based her main character on a polygamous ancestor — it was a misunderstanding, but it led to her debut novel
“I thought he was a polygamist!” says Thompson-Spires, “and I thought, well, this is a perfect story to tell, imagine if these women could all get revenge against this man!”
BOOKS
Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 18
"American Hagwon" by Min Jin Lee and "The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World" by Nathaniel Philbrick topped the hardcover bestsellers last week.
BOOK REVIEW
Meet Frank Capra: a new biography captures the filmmaker in all his contradictory greatness
“Having been born a peasant,” filmmaker Frank Capra told a filmmaking seminar at the American Film Institute in 1971, “I suppose I hated rich people right from the start.”
BOOK REVIEW
Haruki Murakami probes personal and universal memories in ‘Abandoning a Cat’
Seven years ago, in the pages of The New Yorker, Haruki Murakami published an essay so odd, so vulnerable, so personal that it burrowed into my psyche and changed the way I view a favorite author forever. That essay, “Abandoning a Cat,” has since been expanded into a slim, small, beautiful hardcover book that will appear in the US this month.