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‘Once Upon a Secret’: the ‘Monica’ of the JFK era

The biggest “shock” in Mimi Alford’s recently published memoir, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath” (Random House), is how well-written and thoughtful the...

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The uncommon common sense of Anna Quindlen

The most recent book by novelist and essayist Anna Quindlen — “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake” (Random House) — is about the lessons learned by a smart and funny baby boomer, from the turbulence of...

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The return of Renata Adler’s ‘A Year in the Dark’

Renata Adler only spent a little more than a year as the chief film critic of The New York Times, but those of us who were around in 1968 and cared about movies remember her as one of the sanest and...

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‘Night Film’: a thriller set in Manhattan’s occult underworld

A mystery with literary heft, Marisha Pessl’s “Night Film” (Random House) is almost 500 pages long, but it kept me happily reading late into the night on a beach vacation last week. The novel follows...

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‘My Mistake’: memoir balances personal & professional life

Daniel Menaker’s memoir “My Mistake” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a slim volume of only 231 pages, but the author makes every page count. Menaker worked at The New Yorker magazine for more than 20...

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‘The Last Five Years’: scenes from a marriage

The Jason Robert Brown musical “The Last Five Years” is one of those lost love stories that hits an audience much harder than any happily-ever-after tale. While we might tell a focus group leader or a...

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‘Sick in the Head’: a gift from Judd Apatow

Before he was a TV and movie writer-director-producer, Judd Apatow was a slightly crazed fan of comedy who, working on a high school radio station on Long Island, managed to snag interviews with stars...

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The man who gave us President Trump

On Friday, Random House is publishing an updated version of Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a...

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‘Last Hope Island’: vivid WWII history

I got hooked on the work of popular historian Lynne Olson last year when I read “Those Angry Days,” her terrific account of the fight within this country over aiding England in the run-up to World War...

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#FridayReads: ‘White Houses’ by Amy Bloom

If you’re looking for a love story with heft, check out the new Amy Bloom novel “White Houses” (Random House). As is her style, Bloom keeps the book down to a very tight 212 pages, but the story of the...

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