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6 days ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
Credit... Video by Yasmin Yassin for The New York Times She's the author of "Say You'll Remember Me" and six other romance novels. She owns three bakeries. She's also really tired. Credit... Video by Yasmin Yassin for The New York Times A middle-aged man in a black polo shirt approached Abby Jimenez at Nadia Cakes, the bakery she owns in Maple Grove, Minn. "Excuse me," he said, "can I get a picture with you?
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
Readers, get ready: Summer books are here. These are the novels destined to grow plump with pool water. They're the memoirs, biographies, histories and mysteries to lose yourself in while slathered with sunscreen or sitting strategically downwind of an air conditioning vent. They'll whisk you away if you can't escape and ground you when you're far from home. They're best served with Popsicles, peaches, soft-serve, ice water and lemonade. Cold beer, too.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
You don't need to be on the sand to enjoy these novels. You just need a certain willingness to be swiftly transported. Credit... The first time my husband joined my family for a beach vacation, he brought eggplant parmigiana and an anthropologist's curiosity about the Jersey Shore. I don't know what he was expecting - boardwalks? a brush with Bruce Springsteen? - but, after a day or two, he asked: "So we're just going to read? The whole time?"We were.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
Amy Larocca’s book “How to Be Well” dives deep into the global obsession with so-called health, and the companies that have profited from creating it.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Elisabeth Egan
12 hours agoWhen a divorce seems like the only way forward, it’s often the result of a slow relational erosion. Communication gets clipped, small frustrations compound and, somewhere along the line, both partners begin prioritizing everything but the relationship. It’s often a combination of grief and a …
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1 month ago | 
seattletimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
MENDHAM, N.J. — On a Sunday night during Lent, a circle of Episcopal nuns sat in their lamp-lit library, chatting, knitting and gazing upon an unlikely altar: an orthopedic dog bed cradling their venerable mutt, Jennie, who was recovering from ACL surgery. Vespers was over. So was supper, featuring spring rolls, liverwurst and potato chips. It was almost time for the Great Silence, a nightly 12-hour hush that amplifies sounds of wind and wildlife around the convent on a hill in Mendham, New Jersey.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
As Tomie dePaola's classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. When I heard that "Strega Nona" is turning 50, I did what any self-respecting book lover would do: I heated up a bowl of pasta and paid the signora a visit.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Egan
Suleika Jaouad's new book provides a master class in personal writing. Here's why it's a worthwhile habit - for everyone, not just English majors. "I don't know how I would have managed knowing that I'll never be cured if I didn't have this sacred container where I get to be my most unedited, unvarnished self," Suleika Jaouad said. Credit... Sasha Phyars-Burgess for The New York Times Suleika Jaouad's new book provides a master class in personal writing.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Elisabeth Egan
2 days agoAmanda Seyfried is revealing which classic blonde bombshell partly inspired her performance in Mean Girls. “It was sort of like, channeling a little bit of Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe,” the Long Bright River star, 39, told GQ in a video, posted Thursday, March 20, looking back on some of her most …
