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December 10, 2010

The Hammersteins

The youngest Oscar Hammerstein—grandson of peerless lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame), who was in turn grandson of Oscar Hammerstein I, the legendary  impresario who brought both American musical theater and opera to maturity as the 19th century grew into the 20th—here celebrates his family's storied legacy in a lavishly illustrated volume.

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Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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