Book reviewer Alan Cheuse provides his annual holiday suggestions for gift giving: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon from Random House. X Presidents by Robert Smigel and Adam McKay from Villard. The Telling, by Ursula LeGuin from Harcourt. A Dance for Emilia, by Peter S. Beagle from Roc. The Fisher King, by Paule Marshall from Scribner.Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance, CD from Rhino records. Light Action in the Caribbean, by Barry Lopez from Knopf and the recorded version from High Bridge. Nights & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, edited by Robert Irwin from Overlook. American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick from The Library of America. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, from W. W. Norton & Company. The Beatles Anthology, by The Beatles from Chronicle Books.
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