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Adult Fiction
“How Hard Can It Be?” by Allison Pearson
Kate had it all: a nice home, two kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers. Richard, her husband, quit his job, taking up bicycling and therapeutic counseling while drinking green potions, dressing head to toe in Lycra, and spending his time — and their money — on his own therapy. Since a regular income is not part of Richard’s path to enlightenment, Kate must go back to work.
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Adult Nonfiction
“Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous,” by Christopher Bonanos
Photographer Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,” claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee documented the crime, grit and complex humanity of mid-century New York City better than any other photographer. In “Flash,” we get a portrait of the man (deeply talented but flawed with appetites for publicity, women and hot pastrami) and of the time and place that he occupied. From self-taught immigrant kid to newshound to art-world darling to latter-day caricature, he moved from the streets of the New York City to the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and then to Europe for a late phase of experimental photography and filmmaking. Weegee lived a life as worthy of documentation as the scenes he captured.
