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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events

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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“The Lord placed a vision on our hearts of a skaters’ Bible.”

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Outgoing Granta editor Ian Jack talks with the Independent.

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The film based on Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal is receiving early raves and lashings. (I recently interviewed Heller about the adaptation.)

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A.S. Byatt argues that Willa Cather isn’t just a competent writer specializing “in ‘local colour’ about frontier life…. [S]he is unique, and great.”

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