Books

Book Markers 11.29.12

Baylis Greene

The Other Matthiessen
    He’s got the same long, patrician face, wavy hair, and, at least in his author photo, the familiar denim button-down. Not...

Sidling Up to Crabs

Christopher Walsh

“Walking Sideways”
Judith S. Weis
Cornell University Press, $29.95
Long Island Books: Truth and Fiction in Wartime

“Steinbeck in Vietnam”
Edited by Thomas E. Barden
University of Virginia Press, $29.95
Book Markers 11.15.12

Star staff

A Plimpton, Hurrying
    Sarah Plimpton is a poet and a painter, so it’s not surprising that her debut novel would be impressionistic. “Hurry...

The Soulful Iguana

  “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”
Edited by Dan Wakefield
Delacorte, $35
Disappearing Things at Canio’s

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    In the race for the best title of a collection of poems, the Street Press boys are neck and neck. Graham Everett, the founding editor of the press and of its accompanying...

Where the Dead Hide

“American Rhapsody”
Carole Stone
CavanKerry Press, $16
Long Island Books: Tracing the Liberal Lineage

“The Cause”
Eric Alterman and
Kevin Mattson
Viking, $32.95
Book Markers: 10.25.12

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One Eye on the Voting Booth

Long Island Books: In the Hurly-Burly

 “Back to Blood”
Tom Wolfe
Little, Brown, $30