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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
From fine dining (“Care and Feeding”) to fine art (“The Maverick’s Museum”) to the golden age of glossy magazines (“When the Going Was Good”), our recommended nonfiction this week offers readers a chance to immerse themselves in the highs and lows of the leisure class. We also recommend a rape survival memoir, a history of the 1950s-era Red Scare and, in fiction, new novels by Stephen Graham Jones, Kristen Arnett, Vincenzo Latronico and Suzanne Collins, who’s back with a new entry in her best-selling “Hunger Games” series. Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles
Care and Feeding:
A Memoir
by Laurie Woolever
An intimate dispatch from an inside player in the fine dining world during its Bad Boy Chef era, this memoir by a former assistant to both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain offers a fundamentally kind and generous account of the restaurant scene. Woolever is a funny, acerbic and empathetic writer who is forthright about her own excesses; she knows she was a hot mess during much of her time in the food world, and as she musters the strength to quit drinking and get her act together, her book evolves into a satisfying redemption narrative. Read our review.
