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The misadventures of a hapless twenty-something woman whose greatest fear is that she will die a virgin, and whose second greatest fear is that she’ll have sex before marriage.
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I’ll let you know up front that there’s no way that I can be objective about Sexless in the City, because Anna Broadway met the woman who [...]

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My dear friend Anna Broadway’s book Sexless in the City is coming out on Tuesday, April 15th.
I’m so thrilled for Anna, who met the editor who bought her book in my very living room! I’ve read some sections of it and it’s just great.
So how do you win a copy? Easy–just blog [...]

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A headstrong Upper West Side yearns to escape her family’s Jewish Bronx origins and become a Broadway star.
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This is the third or fourth time I’ve read Marjorie Morningstar, and every time I find myself absolutely riveted for the first two-thirds, then bored and indifferent for the final third, only to be knocked out by the [...]

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3 young women meet in the typing pool at Fabian Publishing, 1952, hoping for love and finding that life has more to offer than they ever imagined.
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I haven’t done much rereading since starting this blog, mostly thanks to the TBR tsunami that Bookmooch yielded out of a few boxes of discarded books my mom cleaned [...]

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The trials and travails of a group of young New York City-based novelists.
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Grub is a reworking of a 19th Century novel. I can’t speak to its success in that regard because I haven’t read the original, but I will say that author Elise Blackwell pulls off a rare bird: a satire brimming with humanism. [...]

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Jane’s always found it easy to believe in God, but when she loses everything overnight she has to learn what’s really important.
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An investigation into cosmetic surgery, mainly in America, with a focus on the extremes to which people have gone.
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A memoir about a writer’s descent into Ritalin and cocaine addiction while working on the not-supposed-to-be-about-her follow up to her best-selling first memoir.
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If I could dare to face my obsession with Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, I would still not go into therapy because any cure for Wurtzelmania would ruin my taste for things [...]

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Ian from Upper Fort Stewart has a good post about how he doesn’t love the library, and asks how others feel about this venerable institution.
I love the library. It might be my favorite place in the world, in theory if not always in practice. I always feel immediately at home in a library, [...]

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Restlessness in her current relationship leads a NYC woman to wonder if her family’s legacy has doomed her to unhappiness.
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