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Below are 20 journal entries, after skipping by the 20 most recent ones recorded in
NYT > Books' LiveJournal:
| Friday, December 27th, 2013 | ||
| 9:44 pm | Books Of Style: Books Offer Career Advice, and Tips on How to Quit and Find a New Job Three books advise on how to quit your job or reinvent your career. 
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| 8:33 pm | ArtsBeat: Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, Judge Rules A federal judge ruled that Holmes, Dr. Watson and other elements contained in the stories published prior to 1923 are in the public domain in the United States. 
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| 9:00 pm | ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Writers and the Bottle Olivia Laing discusses her new book, “The Trip to Echo Spring.” 
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| 10:08 pm | ArtsBeat: Tune In, and Turn On the Reading Light Mark Lewisohn discusses the first installment of his planned three-volume biography of the Beatles. 
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| 4:59 pm | 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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| 4:36 pm | ArtsBeat: Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, Judge Rules A federal judge ruled that Holmes, Dr. Watson and other elements contained in the stories published prior to 1923 are in the public domain in the United States.
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| 9:10 pm | ArtsBeat: Sunday Morning Mayhem “Society Is Nix” is a primer on the Big Bang of comic strips that occurred at the turn of the last century. 
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| 4:05 pm | ArtsBeat: Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, Judge Rules A federal judge ruled that Holmes, Dr. Watson and other elements contained in the stories published prior to 1923 are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Thursday, December 26th, 2013 | ||
| 7:35 pm | 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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| 5:21 pm | Sebastian Faulks: By the Book The author, most recently, of “A Possible Life” and “Jeeves and the Wedding Bells” says literary novels tend to make bad movies: “One form is all inward; the other is two-dimensional.” 
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| 3:48 pm | Books of The Times: ‘The Fat Lady Sang,’ a Robert Evans Memoir “The Fat Lady Sang” is a warts-and-all follow-up to Robert Evans’s earlier memoir, “The Kid Stays in the Picture.” 
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| Wednesday, December 25th, 2013 | ||
| 11:45 pm | Barbara Branden, Biographer of Ayn Rand, Dies at 84 Ms. Branden, once a member of Ms. Rand’s inner circle, wrote an unauthorized biography, “The Passion of Ayn Rand,” published in 1986, that angered some Rand followers. 
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| 3:00 pm | Children’s Books: ‘Mouse House Tales’ and ‘Cheese Belongs to You!’ Two new books featuring mice and rats shouldn’t be missed, even if you have to perch on a chair to read them. 
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| Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 | ||
| 10:55 pm | On Location | Vashon Island, Wash.: A Table-to-Farm Pioneer A restaurateur teaches himself to raise livestock and make cheese on an island near Seattle. 
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| 8:44 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Uncharted,’ by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel In “Uncharted,” two former Harvard colleagues use big data to unearth cultural trends. 
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| 4:04 pm | Bookends: What Are We Meant to Get Out of Movies Based on Short Stories and Novels? Daniel Mendelsohn and Zoë Heller discuss the year’s literary film adaptations and our expectations of movies based on books. 
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| Monday, December 23rd, 2013 | ||
| 8:24 pm | Books: ‘The Joy of Pain,’ and What We Get Out of It In his new book exploring schadenfreude, the psychologist Richard H. Smith writes that the emotion stems from our hard-wired need to compare ourselves to others. 
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| Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 | ||
| 4:48 pm | ArtsBeat: The Read Around: Video of Lila Abu-Lughod Ms. Abu-Lughod discusses her latest book, “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” 
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| Monday, December 23rd, 2013 | ||
| 8:40 pm | Books of The Times: ‘Want Not,’ a Novel by Jonathan Miles Jonathan Miles’s novel “Want Not” follows a cast of New Yorkers and their encounters with one another and with trash, road kill and human waste. 
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