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Writer Kevin Baker says he never thought he'd be "hip enough" to venture into graphic novels. But with illustrator Danijel Zezelj, he has created Luna Park — a ghostly graphic novel set in the decaying amusement parks of Coney Island. It profiles a Russian immigrant plagued by nightmares of the Chechen War.

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When CBS correspondent Byron Pitts was 12 years old, he had a debilitating stutter and a terrible secret: he couldn't read. In his new memoir, Step Out On Nothing, Pitts describes how, with faith and family, he overcame illiteracy to become an award-winning correspondent.

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Chaucer’s lusty pilgrims return in a Modern English incarnation.

The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.

Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.

In the autumnal novel of Maureen Howard’s cycle of seasons, an 80-something narrator shares her inner Manhattan.

Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin launches a media tour Monday to promote her memoir, Going Rogue. What will the book — and book tour — mean for Palin's political future?

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If you've used a GPS system — or if you happen to be using the Internet to read this — you can thank DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For 50 years, the smallish, somewhat secretive division of the Pentagon has been mostly off-limits to reporters. Now author Michael Belfiore has profiled the agency in a new book.

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To the Editor:.

Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.

Topping the list: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna, Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Dan Brown's Lost Symbol. And making their list debut: John Grisham's Ford Coutnty and Kurt Vonnegut's Look at the Birdie.

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In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism.

Moving beyond traditional superheroes, two new graphic novels recount the epic tales of scientists and the research that made them famous. Ira Flatow talks with authors Michael Keller and Apostolos Doxiadis about their graphic novels on natural selection and logic.

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The professor of psychiatry who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer.

James McManus explores the characteristically American history of poker.

A fictional metamorphosis conveys what it means to be alien.

The story of 2008’s crash, and an effort to size up the problem.

One person who plans to meet with President Obama during his trip to China is his half-brother, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, who lives in China. Ndesandjo has recently released a semi-autobiographical novel, revealing the abusive nature of their father.

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