#benjamin markovits

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Intensity, of one kind or another, is often what we end up being nostalgic for.

- Benjamin Markovits (Introduction 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau, p. xiii)

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When we buy or rent a house, when we work the job it takes to afford it, we're striving not just for shelter but a whole range of ordinary ambitions. To have children and neighbours, to go through the usual transitions into middle age and retirement. What would we spend our love and freedom on if not on those things?

- Benjamin Markovits (Introduction 'Walden')

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In 'Christmas In Austin,' Family Struggles Are A Gift To Readers

In Benjamin Markovits' new novel, a far-flung family reunites in their home town of Austin for Christmas, bringing all their baggage. And while it's an emotional book, it never descends into pathos.

Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits

US: https://amzn.to/2QmrgL3

UK: https://amzn.to/2QvCjBp

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Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits review – family ties

The sequel to A Weekend in New York gets inside the Essinger clan’s heads for an enforced family gathering

Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits

US: https://amzn.to/2QmrgL3

UK: https://amzn.to/2QvCjBp

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Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits review – protean perspective on family dynamics

Christmas with the Essinger clan proves a pleasure and a chore in this ambitious sequel to A Weekend in New York

Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits

US: https://amzn.to/2QmrgL3 

UK: https://amzn.to/2QvCjBp

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Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse

In his latest novel, Benjamin Markovits revisits the Essinger family, this time at their home in Texas. Luckily for the reader, their lives are far from perfect.

Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits https://amzn.to/2QmrgL3

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A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits review – absorbing tennis drama

A journeyman player competes in his last US Open, bringing the tensions in his Upper West Side family to the surface

A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits https://amzn.to/2tbzDg6