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Writing for The New York Review of Books, Eric Klinenberg describes On Fire as the "coda" to Klein's previous book, This Changes Everything, adding the policy suggestions missing from her previous book. Though Klinenberg notes that "On Fire is nowhere near as ambitious as Klein's other books," he adds that "Klein is a talented polemicist, and ...
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [2] The magazine's offices are located near Times Square in New York City.
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana.In 1921, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went on a trip to Europe with her friend Cornelia Otis Skinner.The two friends co-authored the memoir Our Hearts Were Young and Gay based on their European adventures.
Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy, published by HarperCollins, which consists of the following historical novels: Dreamland (1998); the bestselling Paradise Alley (2002); and Strivers Row (2006). The middle volume of the trilogy won the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction [7] and the 2003 American Book ...
Philip Cheung—The New York Times/Redux A firefighter jumps over a fence while fighting the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 7. Ethan Swope—AP
All three novels have been named Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. In 2006 her fourth novel, Triangle, which is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, was published. It won the 2007 Connecticut Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award.
A World Lit Only by Fire became a New York Times bestseller and was praised for its lively storytelling in some journalistic reviews. Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune, for instance, wrote that "by taking readers along on Magellan's voyage, Manchester provides them with easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born."