Dueling Titles

By Lucy Ferriss. Hundreds of readers opened their New York Times Book Review recently to see a review of a novel that had already been reviewed in April ... no, wait. That earlier book was Life After Life by the terrific British novelist Kate Atkinson. This book is Life After Life by the terrific American novelist Jill McCorkle. A galumphing typo by the compiler of the table of contents at NYTBR? Nope. There’s the review, glowing about McCorkle’s book much as the reviewer of Atkinson’s book had glowed a mere two weeks earlier. Read more...