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GONE TO AMERIKAY, by Derek McCulloch and Colleen Doran

May 5, 2012

GORGEOUS GRAPHIC NOVEL looks at three generations of the Irish-American experience through interlocking tales.

Grade: B PLUS

GONE TO AMERIKAY
Vertigo
2012

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GOSSIP, by Beth Gutcheon

April 6, 2012

COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.

Grade: B PLUS

GOSSIP
William Morrow
2012

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TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, by Eleanor Henderson

January 12, 2012

THE LOST BOYS (and girls) of the 1980s punk and straight-edge scenes take center stage in this elegaic novel.

Grade: SOLID B

TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
Ecco
2011

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ELF GIRL, by Rev Jen

November 29, 2011

FUNNY, FUNKY, CUTE, and sometimes bittersweet memoir from an “Art Star” of the Lower East Side’s arts heyday.

Grade: SOLID B

ELF GIRL: A MEMOIR
Gallery Books
2011

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ART AND MADNESS, by Anne Roiphe

April 30, 2011

IMPRESSIONISTIC AND MOVING writer’s memoir of her 1960s fascination with male artists, her later self-discovery.

Grade: B PLUS

ART AND MADNESS: A MEMOIR OF LUST WITHOUT REASON
Knopf Doubleday/Nan A. Talese
2011

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SEMPRE SUSAN, by Sigrid Nunez

April 21, 2011

INTIMATE BUT NOT GOSSIPY memoir of a writer’s complex time with her mentor/quasi-mother-in-law, Susan Sontag.

Grade: SOLID B

SEMPRE SUSAN
Atlas & Co.
2011

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THE METROPOLIS CASE, by Matthew Gallaway

March 25, 2011

THE GREAT AMERICAN Opera Novel is sprawling, sensual, erudite, campy, and not for everyone–just like opera!

Grade: B PLUS

THE METROPOLIS CASE
Crown
2010

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TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, by James Mauro

March 15, 2011

INSIDE LOOK AT the 1939 World’s Fair contrasts its official optimism with corruption, terrorism, world war.

Grade: SOLID B

TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Ballantine
2010

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THE DAMAGE DONE, by Hilary Davidson

January 30, 2011

STYLISH, ATMOSPHERIC mystery with a Manhattan setting: compelling, if mildly improbable. Impressive first novel!

Grade: B PLUS

THE DAMAGE DONE
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
2010

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WRESTLING WITH MOSES by Anthony Flint

June 7, 2010

ENGAGING, CLEARLY WRITTEN bio is a love letter to activist Jane Jacobs’s fight vs. overdevelopment in NYC. SOLID B

WRESTLING WITH MOSES: HOW JANE JACOBS TOOK ON NEW YORK’S MASTER BUILDER AND TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN CITY by Anthony Flint
New York: Random House
July 2009

Grade: SOLID B

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