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May 31, 2022

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles **** (of 4)

Steinbeckian in scope and style, The Lincoln Highway is equal parts coming-of-age story, travelogue, American history, rumination on the inalienable properties of heroism, and inevitable...

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May 31, 2022

Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman *** (of 4)

A lightweight, droll novel about an aging grandmother with a penchant for shoplifting, her beleaguered son who is sandwiched between gnarly teenaged children, an overachieving...

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May 10, 2022

Sourdough Sesame Ramp Pancakes

This recipe is a remake of a remake. It was originally written as Extra-Flaky Scallion Pancakes by Kenji Lopez-Alt for Serious Eats. A sourdough component...

Sourdoughs and SCOBYs

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May 10, 2022

The Queen by Josh Levin ** (of 4)

In principle, the story of Linda Taylor, the woman stuck with the appellation of America’s Welfare Queen, upon whom so much political scorn has been...

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April 27, 2022

Damascus Station by David McCloskey *** (of 4)

Soon after the Arab Spring reached Syria, Hafez Assad reacted to public uprisings with vicious government sponsored violence. Protestors were arrested, tortured, and slaughtered with...

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April 27, 2022

The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Jeffrey Shaara *** (of 4)

Ostensibly, the single battle that shaped the outcome of WW II (of which, there are no doubt many such single battles bearing that accolade), is...

America

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April 5, 2022

Bake for Ukraine

The week that Russia invaded Ukraine I called my friends who baked and asked them to join me in #BakeforUkraine. We gave ourselves three days...

Sourdoughs and SCOBYs

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March 27, 2022

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura ** (of 4)

You can probably disregard my unenthusiastic review. Intimacies, after all, was loved by everyone else from the NY Times to the National Book Awards. A...

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March 23, 2022