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Star Tribune Books Quick, before next Sunday, here's one more from last Sunday. Francine Prose on the artist who was Anne Frank.
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Star Tribune Books This Sunday: big holiday roundup. Our reviewers' favorite fiction of the year. Great biographies and regional books. And your recommendations for great winter reading.
Star Tribune Books We'll have an interview with National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles next week, as well as a review of his book, "The First Tycoon." For now, here's our hasty deadline story, which includes a charming quote.
Star Tribune Books Congratulations to T. J. Stiles, Minnesota boy, for winning the National Book Award for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt." (A brief review of this book will appear in the Strib this Sunday.)
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A mesmerizing master of the macabre, Stephen King finds inspiration for his 51st novel, "Under the Dome," in human frailty.
Star Tribune Books National Book Awards announced tonight. Among the running, a couple of former Minnesotans: T. J. Stiles of Foley (and Carleton grad) for his biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Adrienne Mayor, UM gradute (and Hopkins native), for "The Poison King." Check star tribune dot com this evening for a list of the winners.
Star Tribune Books Susan Ager takes a look at Kazuo Ishiguro's first collection of short stories, "Nocturnes."
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Nobody understands anyone else, let alone themselves
Star Tribune Books Claim to fame: I once sat next to Hank Stuever on a bus. He's very funny and a little gossipy and extremely kind. His new book, "Tinsel," a look at Christmas in a smallish Texan town, reflects that.
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In spite of his career as a pop-culture reporter, at some point Hank Stuever realized that he might actually be out of touch with an entire swath of American culture and society
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I'm slow to come to the world of graphic novels. I'm all about words; pictures, not so much. But this graphic memoir by children's book author David Small blew me away:
He didn't need many words to convey the strong memories from his childhood.
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David Small grew up crushingly lonely, rendered mute from cancer surgery and largely ignored by his distant father, his even more distant mother and his cruel, possibly insane, grandmother
Star Tribune Books This week's Talking Volumes appearance of Audrey Niffenegger and Stephen King sold out within minutes. But you can read James Lileks' interview with King in the Sunday Star Tribune (will be available online later in the week) and Cherie Parker's great profile of Niffenegger here:
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a gray and dismal Friday, the day before Halloween, Audrey Niffenegger is posing for photos in an elegant hotel garden overlooking the Potomac in Washington, D
Star Tribune Books Lauren Grodstein's "A Friend of the Family" is a gripping portrayal of a suburban family in free-fall.
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Internist Pete Dizinoff -- the protagonist in Lauren Grodstein's very American novel -- is a sharp diagnostician
Star Tribune Books Yes, at more than 1,000 pages, "Under the Dome" is long. But our reviewer bets you can't put it down.
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Critics crawled from their cubicles gnashing their pens when Stephen King was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters
Star Tribune Books Minnesota writer David Treuer's Slate series on casinos.
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The sporty supercharged Nissan 350Z I rented at LAX that the Hertz representative said was sure to make my wife smile—"She will smile. Show her the car. She will think you are the man."—did not make her smile, and I was not "the man." The car made her nervous. ...
Star Tribune Books Coming Sunday: Francine Prose on Anne Frank. Hank Stuever on Christmas. And a look at the complicated and contradictory life of Knut Hamsun, brilliant novelist and --- Nazi lover?
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