The Bookworm Sez
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‘Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It’ by Greg Marshall
c.2023, Abrams Press, $26, 304 pages Hop, hop. You’ve known how to do that for so long that you probably…
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‘What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New York City Death Investigator’ by Barbara Butcher
c.2023, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 288 pages Dead men don’t tell tales. Their voices are forever silenced; their fingers will…
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Book: ‘Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules’ by Patricia Field
c.2023, Dey Street Books, $35.00, 272 pages The shirt’s just a little too big. But that’s no problem; you’d rather…
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Book: ‘Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60’
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hoodc.2023, Rutgers University Press, $24.95, 303 pages It was supposed to be a…
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‘All the Broken Places’ by John Boyne
c.2022, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 400 pages It shall not pass your lips. No, That Thing You Do Not Talk…
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’Working Girls: Trixie & Katya’s Guide to Professional Womanhood’ by Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova
c. 2022, Plume. $28, 224 pages You want stuff. A nice wardrobe, say. Decent dishes, nice lamps, food, and drink.…
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The Bookworm’s Holiday Shopping Guide
The tree looks magnificent. So you’re ready – almost – for the holidays, except for those few tricky gifts that…
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‘Gender Pioneers: A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons’ by Philippa Punchard
Foreword by Christine Burns MBE c. 2022, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, $22.95, 118 pages Take a left at the first road,…
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‘Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York’ by Ron Goldberg
c. 2022, Empire State Editions / Fordham University Press, $36.95, 512 pages The sign above your head shows what’s going…
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‘Magic Season: A Son’s Story’ by Wade Rouse
c.2022, Hanover Square Press, $27.99, 304 pages You’ve always looked up to your dad. Sometimes it happened literally, like when…
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