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    By Emily Temple  November 17, 2020
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    Quentin Tarantino is publishing a novel based on . . . his own movie.

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    American Presidents

    Recent History: Lessons From Obama, Both Cautionary
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    By Jonathan Reiber  November 17, 2020
    Black Lives Matter

    The Living Literature of Street Protest

    By Brianna Zimmerman  November 17, 2020
    Family

    Betsy Bonner Tracks the Ghost of Her Sister’s Life

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    World War II

    The Mysterious Celebrity Miracle Worker of Postwar Germany

    By Monica Black  November 17, 2020
    Graphic Novel

    Scenes From a Marriage: The Rise and Fall of a 30-Year Relationship

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    Keen On

    Reporting from the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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    Lit Century

    On Cheaper by the Dozen, the Duggars, and Our Obsession with Clans

    By Lit Century   November 17, 2020
    On Race

    On California’s Eugenicist Past

    By Jane Dailey  November 17, 2020
    Storybound

    Ruth Reichl Reads a Thanksgiving Story

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    Time to Eat the Dogs

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    Lee Daniels and Attica Locke are bringing Waiting to Exhale to TV.

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    Poets House is suspending operations due to the pandemic.

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    Rock N Roll

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    Emergence Magazine

    On the Soviet Attempt to ‘Tame’ the Tundra, the Native Chukchi People, and Their Reindeer

    By Emergence Magazine  November 16, 2020
    New Books Network

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    Sexual Assault

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    Poets

    The Lost Digital Poems (and Erotica) of William H. Dickey

    By Matthew Kirschenbaum  November 16, 2020
    Musicians

    How Woody Guthrie’s Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

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    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

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