Air Mail Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Peter Duchin’s “Face the Music” might just as well be called “Face My Mortality,” writes @JoanneKaufmanny. https://t.co/ZuVt14x5VJ

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This Friday at 4PM EST, join us for our Instagram Live book club as AIR MAIL Deputy Editor @MichaelHainey interviews @MarkBowdenwrite about his new book, “The Case of the Vanishing Blonde.” https://www.instagram.com/airmailweekly/ https://t.co/2ez7kKiCL1

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Concord, Massachusetts was at one time the center of the Transcendentalist movement and the forces behind it, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Robert A. Gross details its heyday in a new book out from @fsgbooks. https://t.co/d1rFdyAHmW

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There are lots of books about man’s best friend, but none as sweet or as beautiful as Dog Show. The slim volume of 25 poems by Billy Collins, the former U.S. Poet Laureate, is a tribute to canines and is complete with splendid watercolor illustrations by Pamela Sztybel.

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.@walterkirn reviews "Crossroads," the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen: "Franzen, quite wonderfully, I think, has decided that American life, so deeply silly and trivial at times, deserves to be weighed and measured by cosmic instruments." https://trib.al/E8jz8Bc

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In this collection of 11 profiles, Remnick explores the lives and talents of popular musicians… and in each case delivers… an empathetic understanding of what it means to create and survive in an often unwelcoming world. From first page to last, Remnick holds the note.

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Almost half a century after her death, in 1975, interest in Hannah Arendt continues to grow. Adam Kirsch reviews the new edition of “Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman.” @nyrbclassics https://t.co/U838ID4yUW

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"Cloud Cuckoo Land," Anthony Doerr's 600-plus-page time- and space-traveling novel, is "a literary salon to which all manner of storytellers and readers are invited," writes @Jennymcphee in her review. https://trib.al/T74FqBc

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On the latest episode of “Morning Meeting,” Anna Scott Carter shares a story about the first time she met the Queen—and why the monarch had such a love for Balmoral. @MichaelHainey https://t.co/JxPUujdZiv

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Ahead of the release of his new book, “Rogues,” Patrick Radden Keefe answers eight questions about grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks. @praddenkeefe https://t.co/iJ8zOaB0xn