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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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15 Books to Look Forward to in 2012

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Dec 27 2011, 9:00 AM ET Comment

New titles from Toni Morrison, John Irving, Michael Chabon, and more

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Toni Morrison tackles race in post-Korean War America. A young literary star shows what happens when two people who've never met in person and have only spoken on the Internet get married. Anne Lamott describes the joy of being a grandmother. The sequel to The Passage finally arrives. Michael Chabon releases his first novel in four years.

There are a lot of reasons to be excited about the year ahead in literature, as writers new and old release books that reflect on marriage, birth, death, love, desire, God, and more. Here are 15 titles to look out for in the months to come:



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