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Review: 'True Crime Addict,' by James Renner
NONFICTION: A credentialed true-crime writer can't let go. Readers won't want him to.
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Review: 'Kingdoms in the Air,' by Bob Shacochis
NONFICTION: Travel dispatches from far-flung corners of the world, by a winner of the National Book Award for fiction.
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Review: 'The House by the Lake,' by Thomas Harding
NONFICTION: An intimate and engrossing history of a German house and its owners throughout the turbulence of the 20th century.
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Author Gay Talese disowns his new book: 'Its credibility is down the toilet'
Author Gay Talese has denounced his upcoming book, "The Voyeur's Motel," due to what he considers a credibility crisis.
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Beloved Minneapolis comic book store Big Brain is closing
After years in the local comic book scene, Michael Drivas is calling it quits his acclaimed Big Brain.
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'Jackson 1964,' by Calvin Trillin: Eyewitness to the civil rights movement
NONFICTION: A collection of Calvin Trillin's essays on race from the 1960s and '70s shows that little has changed.
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REVIEW: 'Dinner With Edward,' by Isabel Vincent
NONFICTION: The story of a relationship between a younger investigative reporter and an elderly bon vivant.
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REVIEW: 'The Mandibles,' by Lionel Shriver
FICTION: A once-wealthy family — and once-powerful America — both go bust in this futuristic novel by the author of "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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REVIEW: 'Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick,' by Michael Shelden
NONFICTION: Herman Melville's biographer makes a shaky case for a secret romance and a dubious inspiration for "Moby-Dick."
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REVIEW: 'Enchanted Islands,' by Allison Amend
FICTION: A woman from Duluth learns the meaning of friendship when she winds up in a government-fostered marriage in the Galápagos Islands.
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REVIEW: 'Invisible Man,' by Mychal Denzel Smith
NONFICTION: Mychal Smith wrestles with the way black males grow up in America, and how they are viewed by society.
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REVIEW: 'The Rope Swing,' by Jonathan Corcoran
FICTION: A small town in West Virginia serves as the backdrop and the heart of these stories about leaving, staying and regret.
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