Janet Maslin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Janet Maslin

My Summer Reading list for 2017, visual edition. Only "The Changeling" by Victor LaValle is missing. https://t.co/bUXWWtqcwo

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Two new books on the making of “The Way We Were” come out this month. The other is by Tom Santopietro. 50th Anniversary, though the film opened in October. Vincent Canby called it “junk.” I couldn’t disagree more. https://t.co/jkxiu7TBK7

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'American Prometheus' is a work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.

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Because his good looks disturbed him. He felt his success was unearned.* And he worked that much harder to help others via “Newman’s Own,” etc. Tough but v. generous too. * “Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man.” Ethan Hawke’s “The Last Movie Stars.” https://t.co/nNn5ZqF3GF

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@chrissteinplays This film is based on a terrific book about that: “Dylan Goes Electric!” by Elijah Wald. Seeger’s a hugely important figure in it, as leader of a cultural faction that thought Dylan should advance the folk music movement. Dylan didn’t want to, as Newport ‘65 made clear.

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@KennethTuran Yes. And I read a bio too: “Lightfoot” by Nicholas Jennings.

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@JahHills “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’” by Alan Licht.

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A boastful, name-dropping account of high and low times in the limelight. … "The Kid Stays in the Picture" is shallow, self-aggrandizing and, at crucial moments in Mr. Evans's checkered legal history, notably evasive. But don't even try to put it down.

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@chrissteinplays I think you’d like this book. The same author co-wrote Dave Van Ronk’s “The Mayor of Macdougal Street.”

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Amazon says it found something I might like: “Small Mercies” by Dennis Lehane. Good guesswork. I reviewed it—and liked the daylights out of it—two days ago. @nytimesbooks

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