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The most gorgeous NYC libraries
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Fred Bass, legendary owner of Strand, has died
Bass began working at the store his father founded at age 13
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Janet Mock talks about her new book Surpassing Certainty
The Redefining Realness author talks to Dylan Marron about her new memoir
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Here’s the list of most popular books at the New York Public Library in 2017
Books with socially-charged themes dominated the list of most checked-out books
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Take a first look inside Amazon's new NYC bookstore
Amazon is making its first foray into brick-and-mortar bookstores in the NYC market
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Girl in a Band
In the opening pages of her memoir, Kim Gordon finds herself in the midst of two breakups
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Find Me: A Novel
As victims across the country forget their names, one woman's memories won't let her go
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Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman
The short-story master will bring out your inner voyeur in another collection of simple, entrancingly realistic fictions
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Loitering: New & Collected Essays by Charles D’Ambrosio
A cult essayist expands his oeuvre—and leaves no doubt about his talent—in this deeply relatable nonfiction collection
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Ugly Girls: A Novel by Lindsay Hunter
Two teens face a stalker and deal with their own failings in a richly detailed debut
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On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Myths, metaphors and vampires: Eula Biss’s expansive exploration of vaccination will surprise you
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The best books about New York
From classic Brooklyn bildungsroman to a modernist scramble through Manhattan, these books create NYC in their image
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The best NYC authors of all time
NYC has been the literary landscape to countless authors
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Ariel Levy on The Rules Do Not Apply
The Female Chauvinist Pigs author and world-traveling New Yorker writer talks to us about her harrowing new memoir
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Caitlin Moran talks her new book of essays Moranifesto
The author talks about her new collection of political and pop culture essays
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Poet Tracy K. Smith on grief, God and getting hooked on prose
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers a revealing look back on her childhood and her mother’s death