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    The Year in Reading

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    The Year in Reading

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    The Year in Reading

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    The Hub

    Here’s the first trailer for the brand new adaptation of High Fidelity.

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    The Hub

    Hulu puts a stake though the heart of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles TV series.

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    Bookstores

    The (Quiet) Death of a Legendary Parisian Bookstore

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    Feminism

    The Dawn of the Era of Feminine Excess

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    Film

    The Ubiquity of Little Women: 11 Books Inspired by the March Family

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    Brazil

    How to Break in to Publishing If You’re a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

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    Emergence Magazine

    Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

    By Lisa Lee Herrick  December 20, 2019
    The Best of 2019

    Some of Our Favorite Writers on the Best Books They Read in 2019

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    Music

    The Romantic, Uncompromising, Audacious Life of Lhasa de Sela

    By Fred Goodman  December 20, 2019
    In Memoriam

    Letter from a Bookseller Upon the Death of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison

    By Sheryl Cotleur  December 20, 2019
    Adaptations

    Amy Adams gets gaslighted in The Woman in the Window trailer.

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    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about why the internet is so mad at J. K. Rowling right now.

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    The Hub

    These were the most checked-out books in the New York City library system in 2019.

    By Aaron Robertson  December 19, 2019
    Reading Lists

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    By Rabih Alameddine  December 19, 2019
    Comics

    Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

    By Lynda Barry  December 19, 2019
    Music

    When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

    By Jonathan Rosenberg  December 19, 2019
    Friendship

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    By Lane Moore  December 19, 2019
    History

    On the Wars and Intrigues of the Aztec Empire

    By Camilla Townsend  December 19, 2019
    Family

    When Your Family Figures Out You’re a Writer… and Loves You For It

    By Melissa M. Woods  December 19, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Tim O’Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

    By Randy O'Brien  December 19, 2019
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