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DID MIDDLEMARCH APPEAR IN AN ANSWER IN THE TIMES "BY THE BOOK" COLUMN IN 2024?
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Yes, 11 times in 51 weeks - 22% of the time.
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Author (Interview subject)QuestionAnswer
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1/7/2024Jill McCorkle
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1/14/2024Common
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1/21/2024Janice Y.K. LeeWhat books are you embarrassed to admit you’ve never read?So, so many. “Middlemarch,” “Crime and Punishment,” “Ulysses.” Some day!1
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1/28/2024Dan Jones
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2/4/2024Rick Bass
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2/11/2024Marissa Meyer
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2/18/2024Ed Zwick
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2/25/2024Brontez Purnell 
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3/3/2024Kate DiCamillo
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3/10/2024Armistead Maupin 
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3/17/2024Kate Zambreno
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3/24/2024Morgan Parker
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3/31/2024Deion Sanders
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4/7/2024Ada Limón
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4/14/2024Doris Kearns Goodwin
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4/21/2024Emily Henry
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4/28/2024Steve Gleason
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5/5/2024Robert Kagan (1)What’s the last great book you read?“Middlemarch.” If historians could show the dynamic interaction of people in a society the way George Eliot does, we’d have a much better understanding of humanity.2
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5/5/2024Robert Kagan (2)What’s the last book you read that made you laugh?“Middlemarch.” A lot. She is the wittiest writer in the English language.3
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5/12/2024Judi Dench
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5/19/2024Kara WalkerWho is your favorite fictional hero or heroine?This will probably sound pretentious but I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” a few years ago and although there were moments where I got lost in the language, I loved the book. Dorothea Brooke and her pious dreaming and obtuse longing were so charmingly written, and yes, I may have encouraged my daughter to read it because I was reminded of her a little bit, and might have mentioned that to her about 100 times, knowing full well it’s one of those “Great” books she may not want to be told to read.4
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5/26/2024Paul Yamazaki
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6/2/2024Craig Johnson 
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6/9/2024Jacqueline Winspear 
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6/16/2024R.O. Kwon
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6/23/2024Frederick Seidel
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6/30/2024Gabrielle Zevin
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7/7/2024Joy Williams 
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7/14/2024Kevin Barry
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7/21/2024Suzanne Nossel 
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7/28/2024Stephen Graham Jones 
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8/4/2024Deborah Harkness 
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8/11/2024Brenda Wineapple What’s the last great book you read?
I just reread George Eliot’s “Middlemarch."5
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8/18/2024Yoko Ogawa
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8/25/2024Amanda Jones
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9/1/2024(I couldn't find this issue.)
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9/8/2024Garth Greenwell
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9/15/2024Ketanji Brown Jackson
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9/22/2024Gillian AndersonWhat books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?
“Middlemarch,” “Passages,” the list goes on.6
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9/29/2024Richard OsmanWhat books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?
I finally got around to reading “Middlemarch” this year (review — “not bad at all, an author to keep an eye on”) so my next big gap is “Great Expectations.”7
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10/6/2024Kate McKinnon 
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10/13/2024Jami Attenberg
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10/20/2024Colin Kaepernick 
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10/27/2024Richard McGuire 
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11/3/2024Stanley Tucci
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11/10/2024Jean Hanff Korelitz What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?
It pains me to say this, but “Middlemarch.” I’ll get to it! I will!8
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11/17/2024Jenny Slate
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11/24/2024Glory Edim
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12/1/2024Billy CollinsWhat books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?
Life has become too short for “Middlemarch,” “A Dance to the Music of Time,” “The Alexandria Quartet” and lots of others I’m too ashamed even to mention.9
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12/8/2024Robin Wall Kimmerer 
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12/15/2024S.E. HintonWhat books are on your night stand?
I am currently rereading “Middlemarch” (it takes rereading), and “The Last of the Wine,” by Mary Renault. Socrates is a character in that book. So is Plato. To have them appear casually in a novel, yet be very faithful to what we know of them, is great.10
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12/22/2024Mark Leyner
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12/29/2024Elda RotorWhat books are you embarrassed not to have read yet? “Middlemarch.” Too many people I admire love that book.11
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