The New Yorker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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On L. Frank Baum’s birthday, revisit John Updike on the author of the classic children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” “As a writer,” Updike says, “Baum rarely knew when to quit, unfurling marvel after marvel.” https://t.co/zpRHFJMBSR

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Though Dorothy Parker notoriously disliked A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh," her scathing review, from 1928, did nothing to stop the book from becoming a classic. https://t.co/mdTYr4MwGD

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On Thomas Mann’s birthday, revisit Susan Sontag on meeting the author of “The Magic Mountain” over cookies and tea in Los Angeles. “I remember his gravity, his accent, the slowness of his speech: I had never heard anyone speak so slowly,” Sontag writes. https://t.co/UjORAqHjdg

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In 1997, John Seabrook visited George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and reflected on the lasting power—both mythical and commercial—of Star Wars. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/UKCVoRtFyL

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On Beatrix Potter’s birthday, revisit Laurie Colwin on the author’s childhood sketches of fossils, fungi, and butterflies that inspired her “Peter Rabbit” tales. https://t.co/wn6K3fYExY

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On Louisa May Alcott’s birthday, revisit Joan Acocella on the feminist legacy of “Little Women”: “The book’s fans didn’t merely like it; it gave them a life.” https://t.co/thduCgXrNC

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“Persuasion” is Jane Austen’s most unusual novel. It still awaits a daring adaptation to match, @joshuarothman writes. http://nyer.cm/S3Kwnad

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This expansive novel delineates the multigenerational fallout from a young bride’s impulsive decision to leave her new husband for his best friend... The story is no fairy tale; it’s one of “guilt and second-guessing and trapdoor ambivalence opening to regret.”

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“Bambi” rendered the Austro-Hungarian writer Felix Salten famous; the movie, which altered and overshadowed its source material, rendered him virtually unknown. https://t.co/LXaJpnWof9

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Is Joseph Conrad's novel “Heart of Darkness” a critique of colonialism, or an example of it? https://t.co/CHzyagp7UB