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"Friendly Fire" Author C.D.B. Bryan Dead

AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books

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HARTFORD, Conn. — C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusi...

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New Yorker Writer James Wood's Best Books Of 2009

The New Yorker | James Wood | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Saving God, James Wood, The Spare Room, New Yorker, The New Yorker, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Best Books of the Year, Books, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Best Books, Best Books of 2009, Geoff Dyer, Lydia Davis, Books News

I was excited, this year, by Lydia Davis's "Collected Stories" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a beautiful collection of original writings. Though Davis is...

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The New Yorker's Best Books Of The Year

The New Yorker | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, New Yorker Best Books, The Year of the Flood, The First Tycoon, The New Yorker, Zeitoun, Harold Evans, Non-Fiction, Her Fearful Symmetry, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, My Paper Chase, Best Books of 2009, Lydia Davis, Lit Mary Karr, Lit, Christmas Gifts, The Magicians, Eating Animals, Lev Grossman, Lords of Finance, Books, Hilary Mantel, Best Books 2009, Best Books, Fordlandia, Books News

Reviewers' favorites from 2009....

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David Foster Wallace Excerpt From Unfinished Novel

The New Yorker | David Foster Wallace | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Toys, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Pale King, The New Yorker, Short Fiction, Books, Fiction, Suicide, David Foster Wallace Excerpt, David Foster Wallace, David Foster Wallace Unfinished Novel, David Foster Wallace the Pale King, Bestsellers, Authors, Christmas, Books News

Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels--axles--which, as I remember, were thi...

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Neysa McMein: Who Is She And Why Does She Deserve Your Immediate Attention?

David Finkle | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: The Saturday Evening Post, Alexander Woollcott, The New Yorker, James Montgomery Flagg, George Petty, McCall's Magazine. Dorothy Parker, Neysa McMein, Artists and Illustrators, Biography, S. N. Behrman, John Held, New York News
David Finkle

The revival of S. N. Behrman's Biography has me thinking about someone who's fascinated me for years, someone well-known at the time the play debuted but virtually forgotten now: Neysa McMein.

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Why We Dream And How To Rewrite Nightmares

Anne Hill | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Rem Sleep, Dreams, The New Yorker, Dr. Allan Hobson, Nightmares, The New York Times, Margaret Talbot, Media News, Consciousness, Imagery-Rehearsal Therapy, Sleep Research, Sleep, Living News
Anne Hill

Brain wave patterns during lucid dreaming show a typical REM sleep pattern associated with dreaming, mixed in with patterns associated with waking awareness.

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Poutine, With Apologies to Calvin Trillin

Jill Robinson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

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Jill Robinson

In spite of the last election reassuring me that this up over personality was out of our serious new lives forever, I have been unable to avoid Sarah Palin over the past few days.

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Elizabeth Warren: Financial Rules 'Literally Don't Work Anymore,' Regulations Should Be 'Clear And Painful'

Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...

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The Debt Economy - How The Tax Code Encourages Debt : The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Taxes, Debt, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, Consumer Lending, The Debt Economy, Leverage, Borrowing, Tax Code, Business News

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

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Malcolm Gladwell and the Case For Endless Self-Googling

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, The New Yorker, Book Reviews, What the Dog Saw, Essays, Writer, Steven Pinker, Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, Eigenvalue, Igon Value, Authors, Self-Googling, Algebra, New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Books News, Google, Books News
David Quigg

I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.

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Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood

Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dreams, Jerry Weintraub, Movies, James Cameron, The New Yorker, Elvis Presley, Vanity Fair, Creativity, Entertainment, Entertainment News
Anne Hill

Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

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This Week In Magazines: Helping the Ill with Robots and an Academic Classic - Gays and Coastal Resorts

James Warren | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

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James Warren

Goldman Sachs, poster child for the double-edge sword of mega-success, now finds that even an act of charity brings rebuke.

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New Yorker Readers Dress Their Animals Up Like Characters From Literature

newyorker.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

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Is your pet a member of the Critterati? View the gallery of New Yorker readers' pets, dressed up as a literary character....

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New Yorker Festival Attracts Throngs Of Fans Despite Publishing Woes

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star wors...

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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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Subject: Our Marketing Plan

The New Yorker | Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Interns, The New Yorker, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Twitter, Shouts and Murmurs, Humor, Online Marketing, Publishing, New Yorker, Marketing, Book Promotion, Internet, Authors, Books, Promotion Department, Blogging, Google, Book Blogs, Blogs, Books News

If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they're better than Delicious),...

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Is the New Yorker on S.I. Newhouse's DNR List?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

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Gerald Sindell

Calling in those McKinsey folks to review your profit and loss numbers in the middle of the deepest recession since the 1930s is a little like having Dr. Kevorkian over to offer a second opinion.

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Mavis Gallant: Underrated Short Story Master Proves Herself Again

David Finkle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Expatriates in Paris, Literary Fiction, The New Yorker, Mavis Gallant, The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories, Green Sky, A Fairly Good Time, The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Canadian Authors, Random House, Alfred Dreyfus, Green Water, The New York Review of Books Publishing, Books News
David Finkle

Since none of the fiction lovers to whom I mention Mavis Gallant has more than the vaguest notion who she is -- this, despite her being singled out fo...

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

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Diane Tucker

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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Letter From Paris: What The French Don't Understand About Us (And I Don't Either)

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

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Beth Arnold

There is no question that Obama is repairing the perception of the U.S. throughout the world, but the stark reality is this: He is up against those who still want to make us smaller than we ever were throughout history.

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The Return of the Great Herb Vandecker, Poet

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

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Robert J. Elisberg

Back in April, to honor National Poetry Month -- a sadly neglected holiday that sits somewhere between French Fry Week and Pick Up a Rock Day -- I introduced the brilliant Herb Vandecker.

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Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Beth Arnold

It was a beautiful bang of an evening with swishy chorus girls covering luminous curvy skin with a parade of splendid costumes. Modern burlesque diva Dita Von Teese headlines this extraordinary show at the historic Casino de Paris.

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This Week in Magazines: An Electric-Fuel-Trade Acid Test and the South Rises Against the New Yorker

James Warren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

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James Warren

Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.

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Innocent, but Executed

Barry Scheck | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Sentence Texas, Death Row, The New Yorker, Death Sentence, Cameron Todd Willingham, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Innocent but Executed, Politics News
Barry Scheck

Whether our criminal justice system has executed an innocent man should no longer be an open question. Cameron Todd Willingham's case proves that.

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This Week in Magazines: Jenny Sanford Exacts Revenge, Newsweek Provides Helpful Alien Advice

James Warren | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media

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James Warren

Some jilted lovers don't get mad, they get even. Jenny Sanford, wife of the South Carolina governor, decided to get Anna Wintour.

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