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Byline: BY ANDREW SEAN GREER ILLUSTRATION BY MAR�A MEDEM PHOTOGRAPH BY ISA ZAPATA Life of Pie Domesticity is a many-layered thing, just like my grandmother's fried pies My mother rarely [...]

This article from Vogue features an interview with actress Blake Lively, who discusses her career, collaboration with director Baz Luhrmann, and experiences as a mother. Lively expresses admiration for Luhrmann's ability to celebrate love in his films. She also talks about her shyness and discomfort with photo shoots, but ultimately agreed to work with Luhrmann for Vogue. The article highlights Lively's transformation into different characters and her ability to project light and glamour as a movie star. The text is an interview conducted on the set of a movie Lively is filming in Rome, discussing her creative endeavors, commitment as a mother, and ability to balance career and family life. [Extracted from the article]

Eight days, two rivers, 100 show tune-singing passengers. Welcome to the most unlikely romantic cruise in the West. 'Honey, I'm off to Bingoi' was something I never imagined myself saying. [...]

THE BEST OF MEBy David Sedaris I began reading ''The Best of Me,'' David Sedaris's new collection, on an airplane over the Atlantic. I was covered in prophylactic measures and [...]

AS I SAT IN THE DIVE BAR OUTSIDE MUSCLE SHOALS, Alabama, drinking a Bud Light while some man named Rooster played with his gun by the jukebox, I wondered whether [...]

This January, my mother turned 70, and, in a mood of giddy nostalgia, she brought out an old college-ruled notebook: one of the journals in which she's kept a record [...]

THE JUMPSUIT IS the black tie of casualwear-this is the knowledge I bring you. As one who gets up early and must creep out of bed without awakening a grumpy [...]

Breas has nourished mankind for more than 30,000 years. It is the simplest thing you can eat, and yet the complexity of the biochemical reactions zinging through a ball of [...]

LITERARY WONDERLANDSA Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever CreatedEdited by Laura MillerIllustrated. 319 pp. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. $29.99. I would never have expected such a beautiful, enchanting [...]

WEATHERING By Lucy Wood 290 pp. Bloomsbury. $26. ''She made marmalade cake and soup with carrots and ginger; trying to replace the smell of damp with cooking smells. But still: [...]

This is christmastime. The restuarant's air is polished with reflections from bright Italian ornaments -- red spindles, widemouthed angels, a donkey stamped from tin -- but otherwise sits unchanged. To [...]

COUP DE FOUDRE A Novella and Stories By Ken Kalfus 277 pp. Bloomsbury. $26. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style, as Nabokov's Humbert Humbert [...]

THE QUICK By Lauren Owen 523 pp. Random House. $27. Reading the blurbs on the dust jacket of Lauren Owen's first novel -- from such luminaries as Kate Atkinson, Hilary [...]

ON SUCH A FULL SEA By Chang-rae Lee 352 pp. Riverhead Books. $27.95. Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and ''On [...]

An interview with Interview with writer, artist, curator and educator Miah Jeffra, living in San Francisco, California, is presented.

I am over at Mike's house, where his sons are playing video games and his wife has poured me a glass of wine. And today, we are off to go wine tasting north of Mount Fuji. I see Mike eating his breakfast, looking out at the cold autumn weather in his quilted coat. One last day in Kyoto, shopping for Mike's boys (Woodruff finds a shop for us with anime action figures) and Mike's wife (in a family-owned knife store). [Extracted from the article]

MADDADDAM By Margaret Atwood 394 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $27.95. ''Where, where is the town?'' Talking Heads sang. ''Now, it's nothing but ¡flowers.'' What a joy it is to see [...]

KING OF CUBA By Cristina Garca 235 pp. Scribner. $26. Fictio cedit veritati. Fiction yields to the truth. This phrase, learned in his Jesuit-¡educated youth, passes through the mind of [...]

With the touching and very funny story of Arthur Less, author Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli) takes readers on an around-the-world tour, leaping from Mexico City to [...]

ANGELICA By Arthur Phillips. 331 pp. Random House. $25.95. AS a literary form, pastiche has its pleasures, often witty ones, as the career of Arthur Phillips proves. His first novel, [...]

BEDLAM By Greg Hollingshead. 312 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press. $24.95. History stands naked, clothed only by our imagination. So a historical novel has a particularly difficult task: [...]

VOODOO HEART Stories. By Scott Snyder. 278 pp. The Dial Press. $24. IF you've ever taken a long train ride alone, you've probably heard at least one strange life story. [...]

Presents the short story "Life Is Over There," by Andrew Sean Greer.

We were called les belles etrangers: the beautiful foreigners. Twelve American writers brought to France as part of a cultural exchange delivering foreign literature to rural communities. After we arrived [...]

The article offers travel tips for Barcelona in Spain along with information on places to visit including the Barceloneta beach, the Picasso Museum and artichoke-and-chicken festival outside Barcelona.

I leave you with my favorite airport-security experience. (Extra tip: No airport lets you carry a diet Fanta.) If I'm feeling frisky, I like to bring a lot of travel-size creams and layer them all through my carry-on in a kind of lasagna. [Extracted from the article]

Presents the short story "The Islanders," by Andrew Sean Greer.

The article focuses on novelist Andrew Sean Greer who talks about his personal style and talks about his dressing sense when he was a teenager such as giant sweatshirts, acid-washed jeans, and Beach Boys T-shirts.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of traveling in Alsace, France where he read literature to French coal miners and searched for an elusive plate of sauerkraut and sausage.

This article presents the short story "The Holdup," by Andrew Sean Greer.