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Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night

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Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night

Book reviewer Alan Cheuse selects the highlights of this holiday season: futuristic dystopias; things that go bump in the night; portraits from Norman Rockwell's America; gay New York; a celebration of our immigrant adventures; one writer's journey to manhood; and, of course, Long John Silver.

Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night

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A Terrifying Tour Of 'American Fantastic'

Author Peter Straub knows a bit about terror. As the editor of the new two-volume set American Fantastic: Tales, Terror and the Uncanny, he spent two years researching the best — and scariest — American stories, dating from the age of Edgar Allan Poe to the present.

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