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Summer Books You’ll Love Right Now

Thursday, May 30th, 2013
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Why not get a jump on the great fiction we all love to read in the summertime? There are some terrific novels available, by authors

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Bodacious Biographies About Audacious People

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
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There are people who are perfectly content leading quiet, non-eventful lives. These people are rarely written about, and they definitely won’t be publishing their autobiographies

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Lucky Guy – A Newsman Among Newsmen

Friday, April 5th, 2013
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Mike McAlary (Tom Hanks) could be a sonofabitch. He was also known to leave a bottle of champagne on the desk of a reporter who

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Five Great Baseball Films

Sunday, March 31st, 2013
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With the Washington Nationals playing their first game of the season against the Marlins, on Monday, April 1 (fingers crossed!), the Yankees opening against their

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Cloud Atlas – A Beautiful and Optimistic Message
Told in Six Segments Through Time

Friday, October 26th, 2012
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“Look out, kid, it’s something you did, God knows when, but you’re doing it again…” Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” In what may be the

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Author’s Corner: Leigh K. Cunningham – Not Anti-Social,
But Happy to Be (At Times) Alone

Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Leigh K. Cunningham was looking forward to spending a relaxing evening at home, ordering pizza and avoiding what had turned into a cold and miserable

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
Seeking to Explain the Unfathomable

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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No matter how much time has gone by, it’s never easy to watch images from 9/11. Many New Yorkers still avoid the media every anniversary

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An Evening with Walter Mosley

Thursday, September 29th, 2011
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It isn’t very often that a best selling writer speaks to a room filled with fans and fellow writers, yet makes the encounter feel like

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