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Books by Four Barnard Alumnae Listed in
New York Times 2007 "100 Notable Books"
updated
12.03.07
The New York Times "100 Notable Books" of 2007 includes books by four Barnard alumnae. Click here for the full list, as published in the December 2 Sunday Book Review.
Phoebe Damrosch '00
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter Memoir, Morrow
An account of Damrosch’s experience "waiting tables at the acclaimed Manhattan restaurant per se." Some "chapters are cliffhangers, drawn out for drama, written in clear and at times exhilarating prose."
Read the November 18 New York Times review. |
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Edwidge Danticat '90
Brother, I'm Dying Memoir, Knopf
"Danticat's cleareyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an undercurrent of melancholy in this memoir of her Haitian family."
Read the September 9 New York Times review. |
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Lydia Davis '70
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
"When Davis sets her fiction fully loose to ponder questions of language and being, the results can be remarkable."
Read the May 27 New York Times review. |
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Mary Gordon '71
Circling My Mother, Pantheon
"Gordon's deeply personal memoir focuses on the engaged and lively Catholicism of her mother, a glamorous career woman who was also an alcoholic with a body afflicted by polio."
Read the August 26 New York Times review. |
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