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The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed - If they gave parades for people who survived their lives, the marching would never stop. That line --- from a long-ago book by a woman who was a nurse in Vietnam
The Measure of Our Days - The Measure of Our Days Jerome Groopman Jerome Groopman was a student at
The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan - “In the 1950s, Patricia Bosworth acted with the best, married the worst, and lost those she loved.” That’s the headline of the Los Angeles Times review of Patricia Bosworth’s memoir.
The Messiah of Morris Avenue - Film and music buffs know right off who Tony Hendra is --- he played "Ian Faith," manager of the band in the immortal mockumentary, "This Is Spinal Tap."
The Mirror in the Well - In 2004, her first novel was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for first fiction. This was the only prize that Micheline Aharonian Marcom missed that year ---
The Movie That Changed My Life: 120 Celebrities Pick the Films that Made a Difference Robert Hofler - Ask a public figure of a certain age about the most significant film he ever saw --- note: “a public figure of a certain age” is overwhelmingly likely
The Moving Toyshop - Having come late to mysteries, I thought to read some classics. So I found an old Penguin edition of Edmund Crispin’s “The Moving Toyshop,” which P.D. James called one of the
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship - “The best book about friendship I’ve ever read.” That’s what I wrote, some years ago, about Let's Take the Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell’s memoir of her friendship with
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes - Civilians like to imagine that writers talk about writing when they get together. I'm sure, in all of literary history, that has happened several times. But it is not
The New York Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from the City’s Best Chefs - In a previous lifetime, we went out to dinner. Often. Then our kid arrived. Now we go out less --- much less. And read cookbooks more --- much
The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour — and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News - If you want to pay me $15 million a year, I promise never to say a bad word about you. I will work until I drop. I will be a
The Nickel Boys: A novel - Thirty-one states allow the open carrying of a handgun without any license or permit, although in some cases the gun must be unloaded. Fifteen states require some form of license
The Number - The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of
The Oblivion Seekers - She dressed as a man. Born Russian, she moved to North Africa, converted to Islam, joined a Sufi sect. She drank, smoked hashish, slept with any man she pleased. An
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - This is the most important book I've read in a long, long time, and unlike other books which may or may not “change your life,” this
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need - The title doesn't lie. I know because I met Andrew Tobias --- dear Lord, was it really in 1964? --- when we were college kids. I came back early in September to
The Only Woman - This is an ideal day to feature "The Only Woman" --- the attention of millions is on one woman, and at 6 AM ET Monday, many will wake early to
The Oprah Magazine Cookbook - Oprah cooks? Well, she does everything else, it seems. But really...cook? Duh. Read the title. The Oprah Magazine Cookbook. Someone's in the kitchen with Oprah --- in a
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience - I recently had coffee with a tutor who told me the kind of services that his Manhattan clients expect. These go way beyond helping a child understand thorny schoolwork. These
The Orchard - After Adele (Kitty”) Crockett’s father died in 1932, the family gathered in Ipswich, Massachusetts to discuss the fate of their farm. Not an easy conversation --- it was a venerable
