The NYT has published lists of their individual critics’ favorite books of the year, from veteran Dwight Garner, newcomer Parul Seghal, the departing Jennifer Senior, and even/still Janet Maslin. Maslin writes, “Mine is the strangest of these lists. I left The Times’s staff two and a half years ago, but apparently I won’t go away. I write intermittently about books with the potential to be popular. The good ones are hard to find.” She gives special thanks to Bill O’Reilly for his spring release Old School (written with Bruce Feirstein). “He’s right about many things, particularly when it comes to […]