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...Savannah these days, when people talk about "the Book," they are referring not to the Bible but to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the best-selling suspense yarn by journalist John Berendt. The true account of a notorious 1981 Savannah homicide case, the book is now in its 46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah...
...Matherites aren't the only ones with a yen for yarn. Two years ago, Winthrop House, too, created its own Knitting Society. Currently, it boasts as loyal and ever-growing following...
...November gathering of two teams on a playing field in either New Haven, Conn. or Cambridge, the complete spectacle that accompanies the football contest known as The Game, has contributed more than its share of yarn. But in the 110 years that the Yale and Harvard eleven have faced each other, there is one game that stands out, one game that became legendary the second after the final two points made their way onto the scoreboard in The Stadium...
...looking for a whiz-banging pageturner, an unputdownable crackerjack, a humdinging literary tour de force, a ripping yarn, look elsewhere. Laurie Colwin has written several delightful, original books. Her last, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, isn't one of them...
...Firm, John Grisham's tort thriller about tax attorneys fronting for the Mafia, would try to streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...