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September 16, 2010

The Night Bookmobile

By AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Reviewed by Jane Ciabattari

A reader's fable in comics form, from the author of The Time Traveler's Wife.

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September 14, 2010

Amore

By MARK ROTELLA
Reviewed by Thomas DePietro

A delightfully personal look at the era when Italian voices defined American popular music.

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September 8, 2010

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

By CHARLES YU
Reviewed by Jeff VanderMeer

This debut novel is a bravura performance, rejuvenating the time travel subgenre with intellectual and emotional energy.

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Daybook

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.

When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.