IN MEMORIAM
Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout 304 Pages. Random House. $14.00
The director of Julie & Julia recommends a few of her favorite books.
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Olive Kitteridge
by
Elizabeth Strout
“I loved it so much that when I finished reading it, I started at the beginning and read it over again.”
I was in the middle of reading Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge the day Strout won the Pulitzer Prize, and I almost felt I’d won a prize too. This is a magical, powerful book—13 stories linked by a completely problematic, prickly, complicated woman named Olive Kitteridge. I loved it so much that when I finished reading it, I started at the beginning and read it over again.
Back to Basics By Ina Garten 272 Pages. Clarkson Potter. $35.00
Back to Basics
by
Ina Garten
“She knows exactly how to write recipes for people who love to cook but who aren’t crazy.”
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Best known for her screenplays, Ephron, who has died at 71, was also a first-rate journalist and essayist.
