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The Lamed Vav and “The Last of the Just” - Passover. We were spared the obsessive preparation for this holiday: the special plates, the bitter herbs, the family gathered around the TV for the ritual viewing of the Cecil B.
The Last Lecture - One of the staples of “the college experience” at many schools is the “last lecture” --- a beloved professor sums up a lifetime of scholarship and teaching
The Laughing Monsters - Guest Butler Robert Smith is a semi-retired music-business executive, a part-time painter and resident of Los Angeles who still cherishes his east coast roots and proclivities. He is an occasional
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s only novel was rejected by Italy’s most distinguished publishers, so he died in 1957 without learning that “The Leopard” would become the best selling novel in Italian
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert - The letters of Flaubert --- so beyond boring, right? Ever been in a doomed romance? Then read on.... "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Gustave Flaubert said, and ever since readers have imagined
The Lie - I want to tell you about this disturbing, erotic, haunting novel by a veteran writer you have never heard of. But on the off-chance you will find The Lie too
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Before sending the final draft of my novel into the publishing world, I asked one friend to read it. She flagged an important fact: the kids in my book have
The Life of Milarepa - Every religion has saints who perform miracles and thus convince lesser believers of the rightness of their faith. Tibetan Buddhism is a particularly astringent discipline, fit
The Little Engine That Could - So I’m walking on the rubberized track in the park near my apartment. And there, just ahead of me, is a tall man. His son is with him, on his
The Little Match Girl - “A Christmas Carol” was too long to read to children, so in 2013, I cut it in half --- just as Charles Dickens did when he read it in theaters.
The Long Tail - I can hardly believe it --- the editor of 'Wired' Magazine has written an entire book about HeadButler.com. Okay, he didn't mention the name, but no matter. Anyone
The Lost Daughter - A movie to look forward to, twice in a week? I haven't seen "The Lost Daughter," but I've read Elena Ferrante's novel and watched the trailer --- it's here ---
The Lost Painting: The Search for a Caravaggio Masterpiece - The Lost Painting: The Search for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Jonathan Harr 'The
The Lost Wife: a novel - There is no fable we like quite as much as the fable of a woman of low birth who endures hard times, perseveres, and triumphs. The first half of Susanna
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars - Maurice Dekobra? His name is now almost completely forgotten, but in 1927 he published a novel called “The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" that sold a million copies in France. (It
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Before there was "Mad Men," there was.... If you've got a long memory, like old movies or have chatty parents, a 1955 novel comes to mind. Okay, so Tom Rath isn't an
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter - People can be so stupid. And I don’t mean politicians who don’t know enough to use throwaway cell phones when communicating with women who aren’t married to them. I mean the citizens
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy - Bette Midler (on Twitter): "Workers of America, you keep asking, ‘Why is my life so shitty?’ Here’s your answer in two words: this prick." Two Boeing 737 Max crashes ---
The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft - The subject of Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler’s book is marriage, which explains why it requires 560 pages and weighs 3.7 pounds. Lisa Grunwald was a close friend in my
The Mascot - “We are all going to die tomorrow,” his mother said. Her eldest child, just five years old, believed her --- that night, soldiers had burst through their door, smashed up
