{"id":953984,"date":"2014-11-28T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=953984"},"modified":"2014-11-28T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T08:00:33","slug":"holiday-books-gift-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=953984","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Books Gift Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whether it\u2019s the most-talked-about cookbook or an unexpectedly personal art monograph, a well-chosen book never goes out of style.<\/div>\n
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This year, we\u2019re bypassing the usual weighty monographs for a more personal look at the creative life. For contemporary cool girls, Berlin-based artist Dorothy Iannone\u2019s exuberant drawings, collected inYou Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends<\/em> (Siglio), has the feel of a high-brow graphic novel\u2014think a feminist R. Crumb.<\/strong>Ann Demeulemeester<\/em> (Rizzoli), with an introduction by<\/strong>Patti Smith,<\/strong> is a punk-inflected celebration of the Belgian designer, while **Christopher Sykes\u2019**s David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012<\/em> (Nan A. Talese) takes a dip in the sunlit swimming pools of the artist\u2019s memory. And if you must go big: The Essential Cy Twombly<\/em> (D.A.P.) is pure visual poetry writ large.<\/p>\n

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    For food lovers, choose your cookbook ethos. Gabrielle Hamilton<\/strong> reveals the earthy secrets\u2014roast capon, the perfect Bloody Mary\u2014behind her beloved East Village restaurant in the pages of Prune<\/em> (Random House), pre-spattered with cooking stains. More abstemious pleasure-seekers will prefer The Art of Eating Well: Hemsley and Hemsley<\/em> (powerHouse), from a pair of glowingly grain-averse London sisters, while **Malin Elmlid\u2019**s The Bread Exchange<\/em> (Chronicle) recounts a life of carb-fueled wanderlust\u2014don\u2019t miss the pancakes. Meanwhile, Yotam Ottolenghi<\/strong> adds a few more luscious notes to the vegetarian flavor spectrum in Plenty More<\/em> (Ten Speed Press)\u2014think smoked beets with caramelized macadamias.<\/p>\n

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      For an inspiring friend, choose a life that inspires: **A. N. Wilson\u2019**s Victoria: A Life<\/em> (Penguin Press), is the definitive biography, while fashion royalty **Diane von Furstenberg\u2019**sThe Woman I Wanted to Be<\/em> (Simon and Schuster), and Hollywood royalty\u2019s **Anjelica Huston\u2019**s Watch Me<\/em> (Scribner), are the season\u2019s most glamorous memoirs. The year\u2019s great literary biography, **Hermione Lee\u2019**s Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life<\/em> (Knopf), captures the enigmatic, late-blooming The Blue Flower<\/em> author, while **Jeff Hobbs\u2019**s unforgettable The Short Life and Tragic Life of Robert Peace<\/em> (Scribner) takes measure of the American dream in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

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        Holiday stress calls for a secret reading stash, to give\u2014and to give yourself. Our picks: **Ali Smith\u2019**s Man Booker\u2014nominated How To Be Both<\/em> (Knopf), a reprint of **William Gass\u2019**s In the Heart of the Heart of the Country<\/em> (NYRB)\u2014a must for any dispossessed Midwesterner\u2014or, for those who prefer a little mayhem with their mistletoe, **Emily St. John Mandel\u2019**s dystopic Station Eleven<\/em> (Knopf). Fans of mid-century American poetry shouldn\u2019t miss a reprint of Eileen Simpson\u2019s classic memoir, Poets In Their Youth<\/em> (FSG), a piercing account of her life with John Berryman and their circle of beautiful and damned, while contemporary tastes require Pulitzer Prize\u2013winner **Mark Strand\u2019**s Collected Poems<\/em> (Knopf), whose \u201cLines for Winter\u201d conjures \u201cthe cracking white\/of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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          Still undecided? A subscription from the **12th Duke of Devonshire\u2019**s London bookstore, Heywood Hill, promises the arrival of an expertly chosen, elegantly packaged book every month of the year, tailored to individual reading tastes, according to a theme (Year in Books, for example). Sometimes, the best gift of all lies in the promise of discovery\u2014and not knowing what will land on your shelves next.<\/p>\n

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