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The Joyous Season | The Joyous Season

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Dec.23.2012
Every year in November or December I spend a few hours rereading one of my favorite Christmas novels: “The Joyous Season,” by Patrick Dennis. It’s the tale of a pair of Manhattan siblings whose parents’ marriage implodes over one Christmas in the mid-1960s, and over the years it has had me laughing...
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Apr.12.2012
Below is a link to a Q and A I did with Random House in honor of National Library Week. There are a half-dozen questions.  Here is one.  RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be?  CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Well, I would want that person to be alive and happy at the end...