Sunday Book Review, April 13, 2008
COVER REVIEW: David Samuels writes about the colorful characters at a dogtrack in the essay collection “Only Love Can Break Your Heart.”
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‘The Runner’ and ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ by David Samuels present masterful essays on impostors, con men and other outtakes of American life.
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In ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’ by Keith Gessen, a fresh crop of literary intellectuals meets the modern world.
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In ‘The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life’ and ‘American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau,’ the writer keeps our eyes on the argument.
