Books

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Gilroy Was There

By Nina Shengold

Scrapping prepared remarks, I tell them 90 percent of my career has been failure. “I’ve been dead broke six times and if I don’t sell something soon it’ll be seven.”

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Washington: The Making of the American Capital

By Pauline Uchmanowicz

Bordewich tells the seldom-told tale of the city’s ultimate birth on the banks of the Potomac.

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Anybody Any Minute

By Anne Pyburn

It is deep without being onerous, a beautifully told tale of how lives that may appear on the surface to be falling apart are actually falling into place.

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Short Takes

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Summer pleasures of every sort: hiking, gardens, poetry, love, sex,
and baseball.