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"Read any good books lately?"

The New York Times conducted a survey of a handful of writers and asked them for some book recommendations. Here are just a few:

Here's an interesting bit of news with a local angle from today's New York Times:

Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker’s Poetry Editor
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: September 20, 2007
Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, is stepping down after 20 years and will be succeeded by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Looking for a gift idea? Check out this year's list of 100 notable books published by the New York Times.

We all have them: certain people, places and things we treasure. For Princeton, there are more than a handful of locals whom we love. The Princeton Record Exchange is certainly one of our unique treasures that is not only loved locally, but by those who make pilgrimages from afar to find music that can't be found elsewhere.

Check out the recent New York Times article (4/10), which has been one of the most e-mailed articles from NYT this week, In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives, and accompanying slideshow .