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Alexander Gelfand

Alexander Gelfand

I’m currently re-reading “The Iliad.” I read “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” in college 100 years ago, and I love those epics so much that I reread them every few years, trying out different translations as I go. Homer — or whoever actually wrote them — was a narrative genius.
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Deborah Blumberg

Deborah Lynn Blumberg

Topping my nightstand pile (which includes inaugural addresses of the presidents of the U.S. and a thriller, “Wrong Place Wrong Time”) is Nellie Bly’s “Around the World in Seventy- Two Days and Other Writings.” Investigative reporting by the late-1880s journalist prompted significant social reforms.
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Larry Clow

Larry Clow

I’m finally tackling “The Path to Power,” the first volume of Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson. The level of research Caro put into this epic is stunning, and the writing is clear and sharp. There’s so much to learn from Caro, both in terms of history and craft.
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