This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: A reporter's journey to overcome a troubled childhood, a new collection of stories from Sherman Alexie, America's favorite hero gets a new biography, a civil rights tale of delayed justice, and a man's efforts to predict the future.
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This week: a restored edition of A Moveable Feast, a screwball romance, and an epic biography of Lance Armstrong.
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This week: a summer sailing murder, an undercover spy novel by an undercover author, and a little soul-searching for the GOP.
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This week, James Patterson cranks out another one full of gratuitous sex and violence and Michael Lang delivers the inside scoop on Woodstock.
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This Week: Buzz Aldrin's new memoir is the portrait of a sad astronaut, Janet Evanovich releases her latest great guilty pleasure, and a graphic novel about motherhood.
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This week: A humorous recollection of Khrushchev's headline-making U.S. trip, The New York Times' scent critic writes a novel, and a French Web site turned English becomes a paperback.
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This Week: A survivalist memoir that rivals Alive, the Pan's Labyrinth director takes a shot at fiction, and saddle-wearing dinosaurs push a journalist into an extended rant on "Idiot America."
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This week: A quirky memoir by a comedian whose white father was obsessed with all things black, Sue Halpern's new book from the frontlines of Alzheimer's research, and a new biography of the enigmatic American general, Curtis LeMay, that doesn't sweep his flaws under the rug.
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This week: Barney Hopkyns' new biography attempts to examine the impenetrable Tom Waits, a memoir chronicles the crippling effects of migraines, and we dust off Bob Woodward's super-readable account of the Supreme Court as Obama sets out to replace Justice Souter.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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