Anna Quindlen

Lots Of Cake Indeed: Anna Quindlen Looks Back On Motherhood

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.25.2012

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While most of Anna Quindlen's columns were from the trenches, this book is a look back with a widened lens -- and her message, as she prepares to turn 60, is that it just gets better (hence the cake).

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WATCH: Anna Quindlen's 'Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake' Celebrates Aging

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 04.26.2012

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In her new memoir Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake, Anna Quindlen, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of six novels, recounts how she began...

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HuffPost Review: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.16.2011

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Hey, Boo celebrates a novel, an imagination and, ultimately, a defining piece of Americana. It's always nice to see a movie that values literature and literacy -- and this is one of the better ones.

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I Hate It When Kids Get Hurt : The Grief Porn of Summer 2010

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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In college my friends and I used to love to watch Baretta ironically and wait for Robert Blake to shake his head and say "I hate it when kids get hurt...

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'To Kill A Mockingbird' Anniversary: Anna Quindlen On The Greatness Of Scout

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Anna Quindlen From the new book "Scout, Atticus, and Boo," edited by Mary McDonagh Murphy (HarperCollins, 2010) I took "To Kill a Mockingbird" ou...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

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Did you miss any of the big book reviews this weekend? Catch up with the highlights below. "Solar," Ian McEwan The New York Times There's little tha...

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Tina Fey, Oprah, Katie Couric & More At The 2010 Matrix Awards: Who Was Best-Dressed? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Matrix Awards attendees might have thought they were seeing double as not one, but two pairs of honorees and presenters were wearing the same thing. ...

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The Very Worst Happens In Anna Quindlen's 'Every Last One.' You'll Weep. Then The Healing Starts.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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A very bad thing --- for a wife and mother, the worst possible thing --- happens right at the halfway mark of Every Last One, and if I tell you what i...

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By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.

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The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

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If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.

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Anna Quindlen's Son Gets Book Deal With Broadway Books

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Salvatore has made her second acquisition as the newly minted publisher of Broadway Books. The longtime magazine editor, who sat at the helm of ...

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Anna Quindlen Giving Up Newsweek Column To Make Way For Younger Voices

Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 05.25.2011

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This page, this place, is an invaluable opportunity to shed some light. But if I had any lingering doubts about giving it up after almost nine years, ...

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