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Carr, Nicholas. The Glass Cage, W.W. Norton Co., New York, 2014 (261pp.$26.95) On May 31, 2009 an Air France Airbus A330 departed Rio de Janeiro, headed for Paris. Helmed by two experienced French pilots, there were 228 crew and passengers on board. Running into a…

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Gardner, Mark Lee, Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, The Northfield Raid, and the  Wild West’s Greatest Escape, William Morrow (Harper Collins), New York,  2013 (309 pp. $27.99) Mark Lee Gardner is an independent historian and the author of a splendid life of Billy the…

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Krist, Gary. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for Modern New Orleans, Crown Publishers, New York, 2014 (414pp.$26). New Orleans was always a polyglot city in which prosperous Anglo-American planters and merchants built entire neighborhoods of capacious mansions in…

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Isenberg, Andrew, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, Hill and Wang Farrar, Strauss, New York 2013 (296 pp. $30) Like the Lincolns half a generation before them, the Earps migrated from the semi-feudal upper South of Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River, and settled in rapidly commercializing…

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Theroux, Paul. Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2014, (359pp.$27) “Art is swindle,” counseled the German refugee teacher and painter Josef Albers, whose book “Interaction of Color” has become a classic, though in practice at Black Mountain and later at Yale, Albers…

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Day, Barry (ed.), The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2014 (250pp.$30) Much (if not over-much) has been written about Raymond Chandler, the famous creator of Philip Marlow and patriarch of the American noir detective story.   An only-child…

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Ford, Richard. Let Me Be Frank With You, Ecco (Harper Collins), New York, 2014 (238pp.$27.99) The loathsome character Frank Bascombe continues to tunnel away at writer Richard Ford’s time and talent, both of them, writer and main character, now nearly hollow, each nearly filled to…

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          I’ve often thought that the best way of life for me would be to have writing materials and a lamp in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar.   Kafka Letter to Felice Bauer          …

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Powers, Thomas. The Killing of Crazy Horse, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011 (568pp.$30) The great Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, leader of the Hunkpatila band comprising some 150 lodges and perhaps 400 men, women and children—Thunder Dreamer, Carrier of the Shield, killer of Custer the…

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We are nihilistic thoughts that come into God’s head.   Kafka Letter to Max Brod    

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