John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)
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Meshuga Alaska
June 14, 2007
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
by Michael Chabon
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A Feast of Shadows
February 15, 2007
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone
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The Adventures of Doris Lessing
November 30, 2006
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
by Doris Lessing
The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
by Doris Lessing
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In the Desert, Prime Time
February 9, 2006
The Diviners
by Rick Moody
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The Black Album
October 20, 2005
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
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Welcome to New Dork
April 7, 2005
Men and Cartoons
by Jonathan Lethem
The Disappointment Artist
by Jonathan Lethem
The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
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The Prophet
June 10, 2004
Sweet Land Stories
by E.L. Doctorow
Reporting the Universe
by E.L. Doctorow
Three Screenplays
by E.L. Doctorow, with an introduction, commentaries, and interviews by Paul Levine
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Don Quixote at Eighty
March 13, 2003
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
by Norman Mailer
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King of High & Low
February 14, 2002
Black House
by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
Stephen King’s Rose Red by Stephen King
The Essential Stephen King
by Stephen J. Spignesi
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Puppet Show
October 4, 2001
Fury
by Salman Rushdie
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Nuclear Fission
September 20, 2001
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
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Liaisons Dangereuses
July 19, 2001
Positively 4th Street:The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña,and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
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The Hunger Artist
February 22, 2001
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
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Cri de Coeur
February 8, 2001
Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason Epstein
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Mind Painting
January 11, 2001
Plowing the Dark
by Richard Powers
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The Wise Woman and the Whale
July 20, 2000
Herman Melville
by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Poor Papa
June 29, 2000
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TV: The Mummy’s Curse
May 28, 1998
Made Possible By The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States
by James Ledbetter
Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film
by B.J. Bullert
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Stories of Malamud
May 31, 1984
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The Shaman and the Schlemiel
January 19, 1984
The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud