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True Crime Central: Review: 'Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach' by Laurence Leamer
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Monday, June 22, 2009. Review: 'Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach' by Laurence Leamer. Guest Reviewer: Meryl Gordon, Author of Mrs. Astor Regrets. Just the name- Palm Beach- conjures up an American fantasy of wealth, privilege and exclusivity. Laurence Leamer, in his well-written and entertaining new book, Madness Under the Royal Palms,. Leamer ( The Kennedy Women. Madness under the Royal Palms. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). ARC of the Literati.
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True Crime Central: Boston Globe Review: 'Vanished Smile' by R.A. Scotti and 'The Crimes of Paris' by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Boston Globe Review: 'Vanished Smile' by R.A. Scotti and 'The Crimes of Paris' by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. The tale of an unsophisticated criminal convicted of single-handedly stealing the Mona Lisa. Once the masterpiece was given back to the Louvre by the Italian government, French authorities opted to treat Peruggia with leniency. He would serve only a few months in jail, after being deemed "mentally deficient" by the courts. Certainly anyone who believed that it woul...As th...
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True Crime Central: Minnesota Reads Review of 'Newton and the Counterfeiter' by Thomas Levenson
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Minnesota Reads Review of 'Newton and the Counterfeiter' by Thomas Levenson. Thomas Levenson’s new book. Newton and the Counterfeiter. Levenson’s book also offered a primer on the English language of the Renaissance era, thanks to his direct quotes from source material. Here is a dandy of a quote from Charloner talking to Thomas Carter, a fellow counterfeiter, and paid informant for Newton. It also shows us some interesting spelling from that era. What Levenson did very well in.
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True Crime Central: Review: 'Provenance' by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. Review: 'Provenance' by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. By David D'Arcy / SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Provenance, which means history of ownership, is a key term to drop at a gallery opening between sips of Champagne, preferably with the hint of a French accent. The word has gained currency in the past 10 years. The currency comes from disputes over works of art, which grab headlines with art prices soaring and prominent people often holding the works in question. Provenance clea...
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New Art Books | Reading For Pleasure
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A stimulating book list. Laquo; Review: ‘South of Broad’ by Pat Conroy. NY Times Review: The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Graeme in two new annotated editions. Sign of the times: The three headlining art books of the season are as much about commerce as they are about art. Cynthia Saltzman’s Old Masters, New World. Examines the acquisition of art by western oligarchs;. The Man Who Made Vermeers. Looks at a master-forger seduced by the Nazis and by the opportunity to fake-for-a-buck;. From Tyler Green’s...
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NY Times Review: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Graeme in two new annotated editions. A Second Wind for Toad and his Pals. By CHARLES McGRATH / NEW YORK TIMES. The Wind in the Willows began as a bedtime story and evolved over a series of letters (reproduced in the Gauger edition) that Grahame wrote to his son, Alastair, during the long months when he was farmed out to a nanny. Alastair Grahame was born part blind (an inspiration for Mole? July 10, 2009 at 4:49 pm. The common thread in Kate Walbert&...
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann | Booksbybetsey
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Review: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann. June 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm. Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009. Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with. Let the Great World Spin. Amazon Exclusive: Frank McCourt on. Let the Great World Spin. Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book,. Won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nationa...
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Boston Globe Review: ‘Towards Another Summer’ by Janet Frame. Fictional tale a fitting Frame memoir. When New Zealand author Janet Frame died in 2004 after a celebrated literary career, she left behind an intimately personal novel she wrote in 1963 but refused to have published in her lifetime, considering it too revealing. While there, Grace continually recalls her homeland, prompted by the slightest allusions, from a New Zealand wall map, to a book of native verse, to a toothache that reminds her of ha...
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Back in the Galley: June 2009
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Back in the Galley. Monday, June 29, 2009. Alice Hoffman Trashes Literary Critic on Twitter. Cajun Boy / GAWKER. Has a new novel out. Gave Hoffman's book a lukewarm review. Then went insane on Twitter. Even publishing Silman's phone number and encouraging her fans to call and attack her. The most vexing thing about of all of this is that Silman's review. This new novel lacks the spark of the earlier work. Its vision, characters, and even the prose seem tired.". The author doesn't deliver.". One of my fav...
