Patrick W. GallagherReviews
The New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media by Paul GillinPaul Gillin writes with an almost feverish, utopian optimism about the "endless possibilities" of Web 2.0 that becomes irritating. [23 September 2009]
My Soul to Take by Yrsa SigurdardottirThe get-on-with-it pace of this story makes the reader feel like a pallbearer at the novel’s own funeral. [10 June 2009]
Masters of Sex by Thomas MaierVirginia Johnson, who helped revolutionize sexology without ever earning so much as a bachelor’s degree, is a perplexing, enigmatic figure. [25 May 2009]
Satire TV by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey Jones, Ethan ThompsonMore than just a category of TV comedy, satire is now “its own genre, and a thriving one at that.” [14 May 2009]
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton GellmanThe Cheney of 2000 had already decided that the VP’s role as a constitutional officer made him so hard to control, so impossible to discipline, that it might be the ideal job for him. [7 April 2009] |
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