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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.

Swimming in a Sea of Death
A Son’s Memoir. By David Rieff. Simon & Schuster. 180 pages. $21
 

“A good death” may be one of the emptiest phrases in the English language. Research has confirmed that no two people use it to mean exactly the same thing. […]

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by admin
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By MOTOKO RICH

Brian Selznick, the author and illustrator of “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” uses the word “obsessed” a lot. As in: “I was deeply obsessed with ‘Star Wars’ ” (elaborate pencil drawings of Princess Leia and Darth Vader that he did as a 10-year-old hang on a wall of the art studio in his […]

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by admin
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