NYT Metro Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Plaza Suite
Neil Simon
Matthew Broderick, who is now starring on Broadway in a revival of the Neil Simon comedy “Plaza Suite,” tested positive for the coronavirus. He did not perform Tuesday night, and it is not clear when he will return to the show. https://t.co/lMQ0wBtdgg
Paperback, 2010
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heretic: A Queer Revolt Against Evangelicalism, Empire, and the Lies We Are Sold
Jeanna Kadlec
Jeanna Kadlec believes in the supernatural and in paying attention when an idea hits you, which is what happened when she came up with the title of her memoir, “Heretic,” about leaving the evangelical church. https://t.co/yg7ilRJIzg
Paperback, 2025
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Spy
Ted Bell
Ted Bell, a former award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director who abandoned Madison Avenue in his 50s to recast himself as a best-selling novelist by writing and marketing his Alex Hawke spy thrillers, died in Hartford, Conn. He was 76. https://t.co/84eyyB9c6p
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Assassins
Stephen Sondheim
The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Assassins,” the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, became the latest show to cut its run short because of the coronavirus, announcing Tuesday that it would cancel its remaining performances. https://t.co/uTYO0d3OaO
Paperback, 1993
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hawke
Ted Bell
Ted Bell, a former award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director who abandoned Madison Avenue in his 50s to recast himself as a best-selling novelist by writing and marketing his Alex Hawke spy thrillers, died in Hartford, Conn. He was 76. https://t.co/84eyyB9c6p
Paperback, Mass Market, 2023
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Tanqueray
Brandon Stanton
Stephanie Johnson went from burlesque nights in Times Square to internet stardom. “I did it my way and it worked,” she said. Now Johnson has written a frank, deadpan and often melancholy memoir, “Tanqueray.” https://t.co/d5kIjWOw1g
Hardcover, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bread of Life: A lay view of Bible Quotes
David Daniel Ball
How St. Peter’s became the belle of the March Madness ball. “It’s not just a Cinderella story,” said Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who graduated from St. Peter’s University. “It’s David versus Goliath.” https://t.co/ZmOrwRkN47
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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
After the attack in western New York, writers and world leaders hailed Salman Rushdie as a symbol of free expression. But the battle lines around his novel “The Satanic Verses” were never cleanly drawn. https://t.co/mjkepYT7cD
Paperback, 2008
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry are communing once again this fall, in productions of “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge” and “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Public Theater. https://t.co/qm3uIOR7sT
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
New York: Historic Towns
Theodore Roosevelt
Today in New York Today: • Bringing clean energy to New York City • A Theodore Roosevelt statue is getting a new home https://t.co/PPlqZSShXH
Hardcover, 2010
$44.95$22.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book