In 2001, veteran crime writer Ed McBain teamed up with acclaimed literary novelist and screenwriter Evan Hunter to write Candyland: A Novel of Obsession; the book opens with the type of in-depth chara...
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When I picked up Mark Caldwell’s New York Night, I was expecting a romp through Gotham’s fabled wee-hour life—restaurants, cabarets, theaters, jazz clubs, speakeasies, poetry read...
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Was it Plato who remarked that seeing an image in the clouds signified nothing so much as the lowest form of the imagination? You wonder how the old contrarian would appraise Roland Flexner’s...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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Question 1 of 10:What word is used to refer to a group of monkeys?
Troop
PackGangGaggleQuestion 2 of 10:One of the key differences between monkeys and apes is that monkeys have tails but apes don't...
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A red shrimp found in Lake Erie and two other Great Lakes has scientists concerned they could threaten the food chain.A small, half-inch creature, the red mysid is near the bottom of the food chain...
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Ed McBain
The Dark Side of Night\'d1 A Grim Gotham Nocturne
