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| Friday, January 3rd, 2014 | ||
| 10:22 pm | Studied: Three Is the Right Number for Persuasion, a Study Says When trying to persuade, a study says, stop at three claims. Articles cited the recent deaths of Peter O’Toole, Tom Laughlin and Joan Fontaine as meaningfully connected. 
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| 5:21 pm | ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Diving Into the Wreck Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, “On Such a Full Sea.” 
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| Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 | ||
| 11:56 pm | George Jacobs, Memoirist and Valet for Sinatra, Dies at 86 Mr. Jacobs had a close-up of Frank Sinatra’s inner circle in the 1950s and ’60s and wrote about it in a 2003 book. 
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| 10:23 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” builds up to the events of 1971, when an American team was unexpectedly invited to visit China to participate in a table tennis competition. 
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| 7:48 pm | ArtsBeat: Lawyer Is Fined for Revealing Rowling as Author of Detective Novel The lawyer, Chris Gossage, was fined and rebuked for breaking client confidentiality rules. 
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| 6:13 pm | Russell Banks: By the Book The author, most recently, of “A Permanent Member of the Family” steers clear of any book described as fantasy, “which to me says, ‘Don’t worry, Reader, Death will be absent here.’ ” 
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| 5:11 am | Kate DiCamillo to Be Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Kate DiCamillo, author of “Because of Winn-Dixie,” has been chosen to serve as the fourth national ambassador for young people’s literature. 
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| Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 | ||
| 9:30 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Nowhere Men’ and ‘The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story’ Two new graphic narratives, “Nowhere Men” and “The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story,” have their roots in the music of the Beatles. 
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| 9:25 pm | ArtsBeat: Danielle Steel Awarded French Legion of Honor The writer, who has sold some 600 million books worldwide and lives in San Francisco and Paris, was made a “chevalier” of the Legion of Honor. 
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| 3:00 pm | Children’s Books: ‘And the Cars Go . . .’ and ‘Poem-Mobiles’ Two new picture books take cars as their inspiration for onomatopoetic fun and automobilic verse. 
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| 12:40 am | Currents | Q&A: Make of It Whatever You Will Peter Korn, a woodworker and educator, on the virtues and terrors of craft. 
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| Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 | ||
| 9:47 pm | Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar Lara Vapnyar’s new novel, “The Scent of Pine,” centers on a woman’s lifelong emotional and sexual journey. 
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| 8:40 pm | Fashion Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Polish Their Brand The photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin are not household names. But they hope to change that. 
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| 4:35 pm | Bookends: How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience? Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss how technology affects our reading habits. 
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| 2:00 pm | ArtsBeat: Columbia Rare Book Library Gets the Kitchen Sink The archives of Kitchen Sink Press have been donated to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University. 
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| Monday, December 30th, 2013 | ||
| 10:52 pm | Ransom Riggs Is Inspired by Vintage Snapshots Photographs found at places like flea markets inspire Ransom Riggs, a best-selling author in the young-adult genre. 
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| 9:05 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution’: Essays From 8 Nations ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution,” a collection of personal essays from writers in eight countries, is a reminder that Arabs are individuals before they are anything else, full of behaviors both heroic and questionable. 
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| Sunday, December 29th, 2013 | ||
| 10:31 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Foreign Gods, Inc.,’ by Okey Ndibe In “Foreign Gods, Inc.,” a Nigerian-born New Yorker hatches a scheme to return to his native village to steal an ancient statue of a war god and sell it to a Manhattan art gallery. 
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| Saturday, December 28th, 2013 | ||
| 2:49 am | Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery Nicholas Shakespeare tries to separate fact from fiction in a new book about his aunt Priscilla. 
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| 12:02 am | Bookshelf: Urban Melodrama Books about the impeachment of Gov. William Sulzer; the founding editor of the Jewish Daily Forward; decomposing advertising signs in the city; and Dorothy Parker’s cocktail recipes. 
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