Last month, The New York Times launched the Big City Book Club, hosted by Ginia Bellafante, their Big City columnist. The book club, conducted online, focuses on “works, classic and current, obvious and obscure, fictional and non, in which the city features centrally.” Every six weeks or so, there will be an online discussion of a book, chosen by Bellafante. ”Let the Great World Spin,” Colum McCann’s award-winning 2009 novel, was her first selection, followed by ”This Beautiful Life,” by Helen Schulman. Read the rest of this entry »
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