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This quiet, quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. After a brief account of Robles' life and career and a reference to his later problems with alcoholism and depression, the article concludes, "He is survived by his third wife, Lauren Hartke, the body artist...
RUNNER-UP: Joy of Cooking: All About Vegetarian Cooking (Scribner; $19.95) It's hard to imagine Irma Rombauer cooking up a skillet of tofu. But 21st century palates will appreciate this creative tome...
Mexico: One Plate at a Time by Rick Bayless (Scribner...
...your child's given name is versatile, you might avoid a permanent name change. Kastner, for instance, preferred her middle name, Scribner, when she was in school. One of my sisters has alternated between Kimberly and Kim. Then there's the always appropriate "You can do whatever you want once you turn 18, honey...
...sacrifice. Selected from more than 50,000 wartime letters collected by Andrew Carroll's Legacy Project, a nonprofit initiative that seeks out historically significant wartime letters written by Americans from all walks of life (a larger selection edited by Carroll will be published as a book next May by Scribner's), the correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying...