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Allegra Goodman
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Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
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George Eliot, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Cynthia Ozick, Leo Tolstoy,
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May 2017
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Isola
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2025
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26 editions
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This Is Not About Us
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2026
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8 editions
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Sam
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2023
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7 editions
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The Cookbook Collector
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2010
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22 editions
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The Other Side of the Island
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2008
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13 editions
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Intuition
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2006
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31 editions
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Kaaterskill Falls
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published
1999
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17 editions
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The Chalk Artist
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2017
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11 editions
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The Family Markowitz
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1996
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Paradise Park
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2001
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A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist
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| A beautifully written study of Van Gogh's two years in Paris with his brother Theo. Unger shows that during these years, Van Gogh honed his technique and developed his aesthetic as an artist. Unger debunks the myth of Van Gogh as a loner and makes a ...more | |
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| This book is a graphic novel / memoir / mystery / page turner. Visually, "Belonging" is a scrapbook in reverse. Krug accrues artifacts, clippings, and details, and at the same time peels off layer after layer of her family history. "Belonging" explor ...more | |
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| Lauren Groff writes a great short story. In this collection of nine, I found each to be dramatic, riveting, and surprising. Groff never wastes a word. She allows her situations to speak for themselves. These tales are dark but you can't look away. I ...more | |
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| A beautiful discussion of the painter as reader. You can find out about stories he read over and over like "A Christmas Carol" and prints Van Gogh studied in books and magazines about Japanese art. I learned about Van Gogh's favorite French authors, ...more | |
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| This is a fascinating account of time spent talking to these three writers. Gorky includes brief vignettes and transcriptions of his notes. The result isn't polished but it's an eye-witness account by a fellow practitioner and an acute observer who h ...more | |
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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| This book is so much fun, and so inspiring. A lot of truth here--and the graphics are great. I would add this--if you know young artists--writers, composers, painters, musicians--and you'd like to inspire them, give them this. ...more | |
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| I've read this book twice and listened to it once. (It's a great audio book!) In my opinion "War and Peace" is everything a novel should be. Not because it's long or epic, not because it's huge in scope, but because Tolstoy shows how people change an ...more | |
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![Departure[s] by Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1746905091l/231681822._SY75_.jpg "Departure[s] by Julian Barnes")
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| This novel is experimental, puzzling, sly, and poignant all at once. "Departure(s)" is a slim book but it contains multitudes, the story of love lost and found and lost again, the story of youth and age and the way youth and age contain each other. I ...more | |
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“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
“People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
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