Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading series featuring such swank young writers as Daphne Merkin, whose books will be on sale amid the turtlenecks...
...ANGELA'S ASHES (Scribner). When it comes to sad tales of childhood hardships, "nothing can compare with the Irish version." So writes Frank McCourt, a retired New York City public school teacher, and then proceeds to prove his point. His memoir of growing up poor in the dank slums of Limerick radiates misery, humor and the cheerful humanity that got him through...
Jobs were as scarce in Ireland as they had been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes...
...latest book, Timeless Healing (Scribner; $24), Benson moves beyond the purely pragmatic use of meditation into the realm of spirituality. He ventures to say humans are actually engineered for religious faith. Benson bases this contention on his work with a subgroup of patients who report that they sense a closeness to God while meditating. In a five-year study of patients using meditation to battle chronic illnesses, Benson found that those who claim to feel the intimate presence of a higher power had better health and more rapid recoveries...
What hardly anyone expected was Accordion Crimes (Scribner; 381 pages; $25), a book that is, in at least one crucial respect, the antithesis of The Shipping News. Accordion Crimes has no central character, unless that term is stretched to include a 19-button green accordion that is brought by its Sicilian maker to New Orleans in the early 1890s. This instrument spends roughly the next 100 years--and the entire novel--drifting haphazardly into the possession of different people or, more precisely, members of different immigrant groups struggling to establish themselves in the U.S. After the accordion maker (who, somewhat...