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It's true, we're horribly superstitious — we run from black cats, walk around ladders, and truly believe the barriers between the living and the dead weaken on Oct. 31.
Every year we're relieved to have made it to Nov. 1 in one piece. This year, just as our nerves are starting to steady themselves, we're slammed by an interview with Stephen King, a master of horror whose latest novel is earning the kind of praise that could mean literary awards. And what if there's no God? Evolutionist
Richard Dawkins's bestseller The God Delusion is raising the hackles on our necks — and we don't even know what hackles are! This edition of our newsletter also features Gillian Flynn's disturbing debut novel, Sharp Objects;
an upcoming appearance by Erik Larson ( Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck); and so much more that we're on the verge of passing out. We can only pray for a calm, uneventful Thanksgiving... 
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 In The God Delusion, preeminent scientist Richard Dawkins — dubbed "Darwin's Rottweiler" by Discover magazine for his fierce and effective defense of evolution — asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
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 Though Stephen King is best known for frightening his readers, over the years he's also written several works that are less terrifying and more obviously concerned with
the universal themes of love and family. Lisey's Story is a hybrid of the most effective traits of both: while the novel has supernatural elements and truly horrific moments, it is also a playful, intimate, and deeply moving tribute to marriage and the art of writing. Kirkus Reviews calls
it "one of King's finest works," and Washington Post Book World applauds, "With Lisey's Story, King has crashed the exclusive party of literary fiction, and he'll be no easier to ignore than Carrie at the prom."
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Here we are, at the very beginning of awards season, and already it seems like each day brings a fresh list of winners: Canada's Giller Prize, France's Prix Goncourt, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, etc. Maybe I'm just caught up in the spirit of things, or maybe I feel a little left out, but I decided to come up with my own awards, titled (appropriately enough) the Brockmans.
Below you'll find the short list for these prizes. I encourage you to vote soon and vote often — I'll present the winners in a future newsletter.
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Intimate, instructive, gossipy, elegant, and hilarious, the Paris Review interviews have come to be celebrated as classic literary works in their own right. Now, editor Philip Gourevitch has selected 20 of the most essential interviews for the first of a three-volume set.
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In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson, the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, tells the amazing, interwoven stories of two men — Hawley Crippen,
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Bear says to no one in particular, "Beware, weary staff members who dare use the rollaway bed on election night!" Cue contagious laughter. It's not quite eleven o'clock, but the cats (and Zooey) have the store to themselves. According to custom, on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November they've gathered among the aisles. No matter which candidates win or what issues pass, they huddle inside, safe from voters.
"Beware?" Fup challenges Bear. "You're being a bit dramatic."
But Clara and Ro disagree, and Oreo and Bagheera don't argue with them.
Zooey just shrugs. "No one got hurt," he reminds everyone.
Around midnight, Fup had disappeared, and Bear followed soon after. When a half hour passed — November 2002, this was — and neither Fup nor Bear had returned, Oreo and Bagheera set out to find them. ("I didn't set out to find anyone," Oreo clarifies now. "I was tired of Oglesby's infantile scratch-scratch jokes, that's all. And Bagheera was, too.") Thus only three cats remained by the storefront windows: Oglesby,
Trudeau, and Cashew. Zooey, the big Lab, slept all the while nearby on the front mat.
"When I woke up, everyone was gone," Zooey recollects.
And so he went looking. His search eventually led to the conference room upstairs, where seven cats had joined Ryan on the mattress: two in the crook behind his knees, a couple on spare patches of pillow, another somehow tucked under his arm... they filled every available inch, like water around rocks. Which made Zooey's attempt to squeeze in all the more absurd.
"Beware!" Bear reiterates. The rollaway frame collapsed without effect — no injuries, it's true — but now that the memory is fresh again, Fup concedes "beware" might not be bad advice.
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