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Sarah Lyall

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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
18 Aug 2024
LONDON — Being a teenager in the unexciting London suburb of Luton in the 1980s was gruesome enough without the added complication of Pakistani parents who functioned as an in-house anti-fun squad. But for Sarfraz Manzoor, salvation came when he was 16, in the prosaic location of his high school common room.
A Pakistani Teenager's Rock 'n' Roll Salvation
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
18 Aug 2024
LONDON — Lamb’s Conduit Street seems almost too adorable to be real, as if Ye Olde Fantasy Englande, the one that exists in your head, had suddenly sprung to life. But it feels exactly right that this cobblestone thoroughfare in Bloomsbury, filled as it is with idiosyncratic shops selling artisanal cheese and homemade cakes and other rarefied items, should also be home to Persephone Books, a gem of a place devoted mostly to overlooked works by female writers of the mid-20th century.
A Bookstore of One's Own
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
25 Jun 2024
PASADENA, Calif. — There are many things that might attract a potential student to Yale, but the gloom of New Haven, Connecticut’s dead-of-winter aesthetic is not the first that springs to mind. Unless, perhaps, you come from California and you hate the sunshine and you are Leigh Bardugo, future fantasy novelist.
A Star of Young Adult Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
26 May 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Although the purpose of this conversation is to promote her new novel, “The Dutch House,” Ann Patchett is in no great hurry to talk about herself.
Ann Patchett Will Eventually Discuss Her Book
Kenya The New York Times world
8 Mar 2019
If she does seek another office, one document likely to draw close scrutiny is her book “Lead from the Outside,” which is part memoir, part self-help book (Its original title was “Minority Leader”).
Stacey Abrams, 'Star Trek' nerd, is traveling at warp speed
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
8 Mar 2019
There would be more dollhouses — ones she and her husband built and furnished for his granddaughters, and the now famous Pistner House, a 5 1/2-foot-high marvel of 18th-century French architecture.
Behold, the Tiniest of Books
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
4 Feb 2019
There is “manoeuvre,” the British spelling of “maneuver,” for example, whose unpleasant extraneous vowels evoke the sound of “a cat coughing up a hairball,” Dreyer says.
Mind Your Grammar, or He Will
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
1 Feb 2019
Because this is a musical, the queen breaks into song. What is love, she wonders, considering the complicated example of her longtime marriage to the handsome but chilly Prince Philip, who has a wandering eye.
Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music