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Christmas Critics

What They're Reading

Rachel M. Brownstein | Paul Baumann | Patricia Hampl | John Wilson | Dan Barry

Dan Barry The books beside my bed, stacked like bricks laid by an addled mason, suggest that I possess either a broad curiosity or an inability to focus. Where were we? Oh yes. The books on my nightstand. Here is a Wallace Stegner, a Colum McCann, a history of the National Lampoon. The Iliad, an Alice McDermott, and a love letter to the old New York Knicks. An Edith Wharton, a (...)


 

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about the writer

Rachel M. Brownstein is professor of English at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book is Why Jane Austen? (Columbia University Press).

about the writer

Paul Baumann is the editor of Commonweal.

about the writer

Patricia Hampl is the author of The Florist's Daughter and several other books. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

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John Wilson is the editor of Books & Culture.

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Dan Barry, a columnist for the New York Times, is the author of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game (Harper Perennial).

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