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New Yorker Review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘The Forger’s Spell’ by Edward Dolnick | Jimthebookfinder's Blog
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A personal selection of current and past reviews. Laquo; Amazon Best of the Month: ‘Let the Great World Spin’ by Colum McCann. Boston Globe Book Review: Authorized Biography of Gabriel García Márquez. New Yorker Review: ‘The Man Who Made Vermeers’ by Jonathan Lopez and ‘The Forger’s Spell’ by Edward Dolnick. June 24, 2009. THE ART FORGER WHO BECAME A NATIONAL HERO. Bredius declared The Supper at Emmaus, the first of van Meegeren’s late counterfeits, to be. Aggrandizes the story’s abundant hooks, such as ...
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Book Eclectica: New Yorker Review: 'The House of Wittgenstein' by Alexander Waugh
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. New Yorker Review: 'The House of Wittgenstein' by Alexander Waugh. The Wittgenstein family had a genius for misery. Wrote that “the Austrian iron and steel trade owes its rapid growth and development solely to him.”. Austria-Hungary correspondent reported from Vienna that Herr Wittgenstein would “soon have the power of fixing iron prices in Hungary also, as he fixes them in Austria.”. Does this actually work? It’s tempting to come away from the Wittgenstein saga with the t...
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Book Eclectica: SF Chronicle Review: 'Catching Fire' by Tom Standage and 'An Edible History of Humanity' by Richard Wrangham
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Thursday, June 11, 2009. SF Chronicle Review: 'Catching Fire' by Tom Standage and 'An Edible History of Humanity' by Richard Wrangham. Catching Fire,' 'Edible History of Humanity'. Geoff Nicholson / San Francisco Chronicle. According to Wrangham they used it to evolve big brains. He also asserts that cooking transformed social behavior. Cooking demanded a level of organization and cooperation that basic hunting and gathering didn't. The sharing of meals also had a "civilizing" effect. Only th...I think w...
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Book Eclectica: L.A. Times Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. LA Times Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez. Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times. The November visit of a great Johannes Vermeer painting to Pasadena's also-great Norton Simon Museum. Ranks as a major mini-event. My advice: Get a copy of Jonathan Lopez's terrific new book, "The Man Who Made Vermeers,". Well, no. Lopez astutely points out: "[A] fake doesn't necessarily succeed or fail according to the fidelity with which it replicates the distant past but ...
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Lit and Pics: Washington Post Review: 'Surrender' by Bruce Bawer
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Lit and Pics is a wide-ranging cultural blog covering new publications and exhibitions throughout the US and Canada. Thursday, June 11, 2009. Washington Post Review: 'Surrender' by Bruce Bawer. Bracing for a Cultural Takeover. Paul Barrett / Washington Post. Bawer, an accomplished literary critic, has addressed this subject before, in a book published in 2006 called " While Europe Slept. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. ARC of the Literati. Back in the Galley. Chicago Tribune...
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True Crime Central: New Yorker Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez and 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolnick
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Monday, June 22, 2009. New Yorker Review: 'The Man Who Made Vermeers' by Jonathan Lopez and 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolnick. THE ART FORGER WHO BECAME A NATIONAL HERO. Bredius declared “The Supper at Emmaus,” the first of van Meegeren’s late counterfeits, to be “. Two new books re-spin the van Meegeren saga, one breezily, with entertaining digressions on secondary figures and the arcana of forgery, and the other in profoundly researched, focussed, absorbing depth. PICTURE A ROTTEN FAKE. Lopez argu...
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True Crime Central: June 2009
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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. THE ART FORGER WHO BECAME A NATIONAL HERO. 8220;The Forger’s ...
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Lit and Pics: Review: 'South of Broad' by Pat Conroy
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Lit and Pics is a wide-ranging cultural blog covering new publications and exhibitions throughout the US and Canada. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Review: 'South of Broad' by Pat Conroy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. ARC of the Literati. Back in the Galley. Reading for Mental Pleasure. Colm Tóibíns Brooklyn: Best of the Month at Ama. Washington Post Review: Darling Jim by Christian. Chicago Tribune Review: The Man Who Made Vermeers. Review: South of Broad by Pat Conroy.
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Book Eclectica: Chicago Tribune Review: 'Story Sisters' by Alice Hoffman
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Saturday, June 20, 2009. Chicago Tribune Review: 'Story Sisters' by Alice Hoffman. Alice Hoffman’s ‘Story Sisters’ leaves us bewitched. Julia Keller CHICAGO TRIBUNE CULTURAL CRITIC. To create her latest novel, “The Story Sisters” (Shaye Areheart), Alice Hoffman. Rose each day before dawn to write. “I wanted to get that dream quality,” she said in a recent phone interview. “To get at that kind of truth. To be free.”. 8221; starring Sandra Bullock. And she created it on a succession of dreamy mornings, Hof...