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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s Six-Day Forecast

The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30pm and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the event’s date in . . .

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Ehrhardt between covers

I’ve been reading Pia Z. Ehrhardt’s stories online since 2002. Soon her old and new fiction will be available in convenient book form. (Title story here.)

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British gothic

On the subject of McEwan’s life and the novelistic qualities thereof, a friend notes the writer’s custody battle with his ex-wife, whose new husband changed his name to Ian McEwan.

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