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THE PLANK DECEMBER 30, 2009

Books of the Year

BY ADAM KIRSCH

The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life, by Michael Greenberg

Poems 1959-2009, by Frederick Seidel

Love and Obstacles, by Aleksandar Hemon

The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whitaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, by Michael Kimmage

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Thank you for this list of books. Mr. Kirsch. A few weeks back I read the Michael Greenberg book and it was superb. Also excellent was his memoir (2008) of his daughter's mental illness, Hurry Down Sunshine, which I read a bit before his latest book, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life. While I have the floor, I would like to commend you for your first-rate writing. I hugely enjoyed your article on the Frankfurt School. Your review of a new biography of Arthur Miller was also very fine. Finally, TNR, can we have the Friday Weekend Reading list back? If memory serves, it will be three weeks ago this Friday since the last list appeared. Thank you very much.

- liberal reformer

December 30, 2009 at 6:03pm

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