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1morechapter · 2d ago

Bestsellers: 40 Years Ago Today

The New York Times Best Seller ListMay 14, 1972 Fiction This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List1 THE WORD, by Irving Wallace. 2/8 2 THE WINDS OF WAR, by Herman Wouk. 1/25 3 CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS, by Taylor Caldwell. 4/3 4 THE EXORCIST, by William Peter Blatty. 3/48 5 MY NAME IS ASHER LEV,...
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1morechapter · 6d ago

Documentary: Grey Gardens (1975)

Amazon infoEveryone has one or two people in their family that are a little eccentric, right? Or maybe you’re the offbeat one that nobody understands? The Edith Beales, “Big Edie” and “Little Edie,” were the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. This documentary fi...
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1morechapter · 6d ago

Documentary: “Up” Series

Amazon infoHave you ever heard of the “Up” documentaries? 7 Up, 14 Up, etc. all the way up to 49 UP (and the soon to be released 56 Up)? In 1964, a group of British schoolchildren were brought together and featured in a documentary. They were 7 years old. Asked about their home life [......
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1morechapter · 1W ago

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Miller’s book has been getting a lot of nice reviews from many media outlets and blogging companions. I’m not as enthusiastic as most.The book is basically a retelling of The Iliad. Admittedly, I’ve never read the full version of the tale, but I have read several other retellings ...
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1morechapter · 1W ago

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language.2012 shortlist:John Ashbery for Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud Margaret Jull Costa for Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga Howard Curtis for How...
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1morechapter · 1W ago

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

Amazon info“I thought it would be a different life, but sometimes it is like the same life in a dream: a different man coming in the door, a different man hanging his coat on the hook. He comes home late, he goes out to the gym, he gets stuck on the internet: we don’t [...]
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1morechapter · 1W ago

Sunday Salon 05.06.12

Hello, saloners and fellow readers!I’m list obsessed. I now have a lists page: http://www.1morechapter.com/lists that I will be updating with all kinds of goodies in the future. It’s a tab at the top so it should be easy to find.This week I managed to get two Orange Prize shortlist title...
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1morechapter · 1W ago

Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick

Amazon infoCynthia Ozick is an author I’ve been wanting to read for a long time. So when Foreign Bodies was announced as part of the Orange shortlist, I knew it was time. I wasn’t disappointed.Foreign Bodies has the same basic plotline of The Ambassadors by Henry James. I love James, but...
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1morechapter · 1W ago

Arthur C. Clarke Award

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C_Clarke_Award(I’ve read the books in bold)2012: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers 2011: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes 2010: The City and the City by China Miéville 2009: Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod 2008: Black Man by Richard Morgan 2007: Nova Swing...
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1morechapter · 1W ago

PEN/Hemingway Award

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Hemingway_Award2012 – Teju Cole for Open City 2011 – Brando Skyhorse for The Madonnas of Echo Park 2010 – Brigid Pasulka for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True 2009 – Michael Dahlie for A Gentleman’s Guide To Graceful Living 2008...
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