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The hopeful cover of Editor & Publisher

“Snagged this from my managing editor’s desk,” said a friend who works at a newspaper, following the announcement that Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews will be shuttered. “The teaser in the upper right… Oof.”

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Highsmith in NYC

Joan Schenkar retraces Patricia Highsmith’s footsteps — actual and fictional — through Greenwich Village.

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LaValle at The Millions

The talented Victor LaValle, whose Big Machine I want to write about at length, discusses his favorite books of the year.

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Recession cooking with MFK Fisher

My only complaint about MFK Fisher’s delightfully bossy How to Cook a Wolf, a hard-times cooking manual first published in 1942, is that it has given me something new to worry about doing wrong: boiling water. “It can be said,” Fisher admits, “with few people to argue the point, that water boils when it has been heated to two hundred . . .

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