Put on your sunglasses, folks. It s a shiny new year out there.
Say what you will about 2020, it was a great year for books. How s 2021 looking? Here are some titles we are looking forward to in the first four months. The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by K. Woodman- Maynard (Candlewick, Jan. 5)
Woodman-Maynard, a Minnesota graphic designer, has woven excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald s famous novel throughout mystical and haunting watercolors. That Old Country Music, by Kevin Barry (Doubleday, Jan. 12)
Irish writer Barry, winner of the Dublin Literary Award and the Goldsmiths Prize, returns with his third collection of stories that blend humor and pathos, beauty and sorrow.
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In 2010, I recall watching a documentary on how abusive a boss Peter Nygard was â a biopic called
Larger than Life that revealed the Canadian retailer referred to himself as âGodâ in the workplace and followed his penchant for entertaining underage women at his Bahamian enclave on Lyford Cay that he renamed âNygard Cay.â
While the documentary was critical, unflattering and pointed to serious misconduct, it did not seem to cause the national outrage one would expect for what seemed to be a serial offender operating not just with impunity but with reckless abandon.
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