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  • Ligaya Mishan edits The New Yorker’s book blog and writes restaurant and book reviews for the magazine. She is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. She was born on Sunset Boulevard and grew up in Honolulu; has been a shoe model, a tutor at the Supreme Soviet, and an advertising writer; and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the composer Ahrin Mishan, and their daughter, Calla.

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Book reviews: 2004

Bad Publicity, by Jeffrey Frank (Simon & Schuster).
The New Yorker, January 12, 2004

The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro and Other Stories, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, January 19, 2004

Cork Boat, by John Pollack (Pantheon).
The New Yorker, March 1, 2004

One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead, by Clare Dudman (Viking).
The New Yorker, March 22, 2004

Little Children, by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin’s).
The New Yorker, March 29, 2004

The King of America, by Samantha Gillison (Random House).
The New Yorker, April 19 & 26, 2004

The Perfect Mile, by Neal Bascomb (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, May 10, 2004

The Sari Shop, by Rupa Bajwa (W. W. Norton)
The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 2004

Bling, by Erica Kennedy (Miramax).
The New Yorker, July 5, 2004

Going Out, by Scarlett Thomas (Anchor).
The New Yorker, July 12 & 19, 2004

Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (Random House).
The New Yorker, August 23, 2004

Facing Athens, by George Sarrinikolaou (North Point).
The New Yorker, August 30, 2004

Maximum City, by Suketu Mehta (Knopf).
The New Yorker
, October 4, 2004

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