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My
Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
For Peter Carey's last novel, he brought his exceptional
literary gifts to bear on a celebrated story from Australian
history. So successful was that endeavor — rhapsodic
reviews, a second Booker prize — he set out to repeat
the formula. True History of the Kelly Gang was
narrated by Ned Kelly (Australia's answer to Jessie James).
For this new novel, he decided to channel controversial
Australian poet Ern Malley. It didn't work...
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The
Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman was once a mild-mannered economics
professor at Princeton with a reputation for brilliance,
an impressive track record (his economic predictions had
a tendency to prove accurate) and, many said, a shot at
the Nobel Prize in Economics. Then, the New York Times
hired him to write a twice-weekly column about economic
issues for the op-ed page, and his days of professorial
tranquility were over. These days, he receives death threats....
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Auntie
Mame
by Patrick Denis
Auntie Mame was one of the bestselling
books of the fifties, and Mame herself one of the most
entertaining fictional characters of the century (she's
certainly more fun than dour Holden Caulfied). Her Noel
Coward wit and martinis-for-breakfast joie de vivre inspired
a successful stage play, which was impeccably translated
for the screen starring (perfectly-cast) Rosalind Russell,
and a mega-hit Broadway musical, which was later turned
into a horrible — horrible — movie musical starring
(disastrously cast) Lucille Ball...
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
I had been meaning to read Lolita for
years, but never quite got around to it. When I finally
did, I made the particularly happy choice of this superb
recording by Jeremy Irons. Irons brings Nabokov's impish,
transcendant language alive, and reveals delectably malignant
Humbert Humbert's character with the skill and style of
a master, making the experience of this justifiably celebrated
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Oregon and became a bore. After getting a job at Powell's,
he decided to take up a hobby — beer. He's gotten pretty
good at it, too. He can now drink a whole six pack in the
time it takes to watch a football game, or yet another viewing
of Valley of the Dolls. When he's not sobbing through
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