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2 weeks ago | 
gardenandgun.com | CJ Lotz |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |S.A. Cosby
Arts & CultureG&G editors and contributors shared so many stellar new novels, memoirs, and cookbooks that we lost count. But here are thirty-something selections at the top of our lazy-summer book stacks. Mark Twain by Ron ChernowRon Chernow has always been drawn to larger-than-life emblems of Americana: Washington, Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton (his bio of whom laid the foundation for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical).
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss |Maggie Gram
Chris DeVille. St. Martin’s, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-36338-1Stereogum managing editor DeVille debuts with a comprehensive and colorful account of the rise, fall, corporatization, and partial revival of indie rock. He traces the genre’s roots to 1990s grunge, and charts a rise fueled by internet fan communities and music sites like Pitchfork that catapulted unknown bands to fame.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Quinn Slobodian |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
Quinn Slobodian. Zone, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-890951-91-7Despite “lazy media framing” that presents Trump-era populism as a backlash against capitalism, many of the movement’s “supposed disruptors of the status quo” are in fact agents of a new capitalist vanguard, according to this incisive account.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Anelise Chen |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
Anelise Chen. One World, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0184-5Novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions) serves up an offbeat memoir inspired by her mother’s habitual misspelling of “calm down” as “clam down” in text messages. After the end of Chen’s marriage, her mother’s inadvertent typo prompted introspection about Chen’s tendencies to retreat, self-protect, and stay silent.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Jill Bialosky |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss
The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My MotherPoet, novelist, and Norton executive editor Bialosky (Asylum) delivers a nuanced portrait of her mother, Iris, who died in 2020. Telling the story in reverse, Bialosky opens with Iris’s death from Alzheimer’s while in hospice in Ohio, then highlights the challenges of caring for an aging parent long-distance from New York City: “The painful absence and loneliness at the core of her life frightens me,” Bialosky writes.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Bethany C. Morrow |Erica Ezeifedi
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When it comes to books, ones with family dynamics often feel like they are among the most book club-friendly. Someone always has a secret, parents are often raggedy, and trauma abounds.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
gwinnettdailypost.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers
Five different players rushed for a touchdown and Tyler Shough threw for 349 yards and two touchdowns as No. 22 Louisville cruised to a 49-14 win over visiting Jacksonville State on Saturday. Maurice Turner, Don Chaney Jr., Keyjuan Brown, Duke Watson and Duane Martin all scored rushing touchdowns for the Cardinals (2-0).
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
gwinnettdailypost.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers
Jose Quintana and three relievers combined on a six-hitter Saturday for the host New York Mets, who remained red-hot with a 4-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds in the middle game of a three-game series. The Mets (78-64) got just two runners on in the first five innings against Jakob Junis before scoring four times in the sixth to earn their ninth straight win -- their longest streak since winning nine in a row from Apr. 3-13, 2018. kAm$2?E:28@ tDA:?2= 925 EH@ 9:ED 2?5 2 DE@=6?
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
gwinnettdailypost.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers
Henry Parrish Jr. romped for four rushing touchdowns, Jaxson Dart set a school record for completions, and the No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels roared past the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 52-3 Saturday afternoon in Oxford, Miss. In his second stint at Ole Miss (2-0), Parrish toted the ball 14 times for 165 yards but left briefly after getting shaken up early in the second half following a 42-yard dash. kAms2CE 4@>A=6E65 9:D 7:CDE ac A2DD6D \\ b_ DEC2:89E 8@:?8 324< E@ =2DE $2EFC52JVD fe\_ C@FE @7 uFC>2?
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
gwinnettdailypost.com | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers
Yandy Diaz and Taylor Walls each hit a solo home run and an RBI single as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the host Baltimore Orioles 7-1 on Saturday. Diaz finished with three hits for Tampa Bay (70-72), which ended a two-game skid. Jonny DeLuca went 3-for-5 with two runs. kAm#J2? !6A:@E Wg\eX AFE E@86E96C 2 DEC@?8 DE2CE 7@C E96 #2JD[ 8:G:?8 FA @?6 CF? @? D:I 9:ED :? d `^b :??:?8D] w6 H2=<65 EH@ 2?5 DECF4< @FE 7@FC]k^AmkAmr65C:4 |F==:?D 9@>6C65 2D q2=E:>@C6 Wga\e`X =@DE 7@C E96 7:CDE E:>6 :? E96 D:I 82>6D :?
